EPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1964
VOLUME ONE, ISSUE FIVE
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The Unconscious
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That the Senator is divorced from reality is unfortunate; that he
may soon be able to divorce all of us from reality is terrifying
America is a strong country. She lias survived
Presidents like Grant and Eisenhower, whose
level of intelligence in civilian affairs was what
one would expect of Generals, and it has sur¬
vived a President like Harding, who did not
even have the excuse of being a General. It has
had the strength to survive paranoiacs like Huey
Long, Forrestal, and McCarthy, who achieved
such great power and influence in political life
that they were seriously considered for the Pres¬
idency, and it has survived totalitarian, semi¬
secret, quasi-military groups like the Ku Klux
Klan, the Nazi Bund, and the Communist Party.
But iow, for the first time in her history, Amer¬
ica is lacing an awesome combination of all
three threats. In Goldwater’s candidacy on a
major party ticket, she faces the possibility of
electing a President whose grasp of international
affairs matches Harding’s, whose personality
' aits are reminiscent of Forrestal’s and Mc¬
Carthy’s, and who is backed by a well-organ¬
ized, blindly ruthless, totalitarian, secretive, and
powerful movement.
It is the very combination of these facts
that makes an investigation into the mental con¬
dition of the Republican candidate so crucial.
Goldwater’s lack of intelligence in itself would
not be catastrophic: An ability to make deci¬
sions, combined with good sense, plus a gift for
appointing good advisers, could make up for it.
Nor is it a question of mental health per se: Few
of the heads of government of any nation at
any time can be considered paragons of mental
health. Even Goldwater’s two nervous break¬
downs are not in themselves sufficient cause or
panic, although on the basis of them alone Gold-
water would be excluded from high positions in
the fields he admires most: Big Business, which
would re use to appoint him to a high corporate
post, and the Military, which would deny him
access to top-security material. But Mr. Gold¬
water’s case is not one of an isolated mental in¬
cident, nor is the question merely whether or
not he suffers from mental illness. Like physical
sickness, mental illness can be a variety of to¬
tally different afflictions, some of which would
have no significant bearing on the Presidency.
Roosevelt’s polio, Eisenhower’s and Johnson's
cardiac conditions, and Kennedy’s back injury
did not prevent them from functioning as Presi¬
dents, though Wilson's paralysis did. By the
same token, certain mental illnesses can have
little effect on a leader’s efficacy, while others
are intolerable and dangerous.
Mr. Goldwater's illness is not just an emo¬
tional maladjustment, or a mild neurosis, or a
queerness. As emphatically stated by many of
the leading psychiatrists in this country (see
page 24 of this issue), the pattern of his be¬
havior is ominous. From his sadistic childhood
troni
his
his
, t his cruel practical jokes today,
pranks to his. kd o W ns under pressure in
nervous brea ay withd rawals and
twenties to h P f his obsessive pre-
on with firearms in his youth to his pres-
ass - - -- ra-ss:
to scare his enemies, from his
he is surrounded by deadly enemies at home^
whether Reuther, Rockefeller t ^ ^ ^
Press, or Someone Who is Out to Kill Him—to
his belief that every Russian ballerina is a spy,
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he shows unmistakable symptoms ot paianoia.
The paranoiac has delusions of persecution, n
manv areas he is completely divorced from real-
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many areas he is completely divorced from real¬
ity. He paints a picture of the world which fits
his needs—a world in which he and a few faith-
. . „ 1 11 n.. “korl
ms necus- a wwma ill -
ful are the “good guys" and all the other “bad
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guys
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” have to be annihilated. He sees enemies
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everywhere, trusts no one completely, and sus
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pects even his closest friends of betraying him
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He is rigid and dogmatic in his beliefs and can¬
not tolerate ambiguities, is obstinate, uncom-
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promising, and rebellious not for the sake of
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principle but for fear that a show of imagined
weakness would permit his enemies to take ad
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vantage of him. And he is willing to pay with
his own life—and with the lives of others
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order to prove that he is fearless and strong.
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Clearly, paranoia is not just any mental disease.
In a leader who commands the most powerful
nation a the most destructive arsenal in his-
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tory it constitutes nothing short of mortal dan-
crpr t r\ r\-i o a 1*^1 ~ ^
ger to mankind. A little over 30 years ago a
paranoiac with a charismatic effect on his audi¬
ences, supported by an extremist, highly patriotic
group, was democratically elected to the high¬
est executive position in the government of his
country. His name was Adolf Hitler.
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wit . “ poss * le 10 determine conclusively,
L P . Sy ? ,a . tnC '"terview, on the basis of
«W candJe jie 2 °' a Presid '"-
throuoh TV m , ~ com Pletely exposed
hlimplf t„;T § PreSS mterviews both with
tlimcplf views Doth With
lmself and with members of his famrn, i
through the e.nHi P « c„a.. .o, . ‘ 111 y ’ an d
through the endless study of his past hi! f ’• an , d
and enemies, that <, --- P ^ f ricr >ds
and enemies, that a comnreh7 Y Inends
denmtely does emerge. But one need
not suoscriuc ,
that something is emotionally cli:
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man who can describe Russia
Not Victory? —as a “giant of a man,
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feet ten inches tall, weighing 275 p 0Ul
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and hard as nails, who with one
slap ol
hand could render me ‘hors de combat,
the giant never bothered me because I ’
my possession a pistol. . . • And one ni
know the name of Freud in order to vvi
whether a man who constantly and coi
sively must prove his daring and masculinii
man fit to lead America and the world in
day of the Bomb. All one has to do is l t
the record—the life-record of Barry Gold'
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(Barr
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to date, a record compiled mostly by his fry (“Mi
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ant! admirers. It speaks for itself.
that 1
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to hi;
on for page after page about his grandfat
“Big Mike" Goldwater (Goldwasser i, the
snortin', rootin'-tootin' Russian immigrant
went West and founded the Goldwater de]
ment stores, and the man who, biographers i
convinced, the Senator obviously takes a!
sped
cask
'’Big Mike," who died three years before
Golc
grandson was born, could hardly have had 2
than
influence on Barry. But his father, who ol
ously a fected the course of his life much
ai
is almost ignored by all the biographies, and
nam
whil
Barry Goldwater himself. Perhaps the tact
the Senator’s father, Baron Goldwater, v
feminate, tyrannical, and hostile toward his <
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dren has something to do with this oversi;
neve
for 1
the i
Baron Goldwater
was
-— “small _ _
(New York Times, 7/16/64), and “a sonie^ 1
reserved, fastidious man” ( Portrait of an
zonan , Edwin McDowell, p. 46). His 0
brothers “criticized him . . . for using colog 111
(Barry Goldwater: Freedom Is His Flight
Stephen Shadegg, p. 41), He was “always
torially elegant in a winged collar, waisto
and pince-nez glasses” ( Barry Goldwater ■
New Look at a Presidential Candidate, *
M. Periy, p. 21), and "as the dandy of
his one-color outfits were the talk of t
(Mr. Conservative: Barry Goldwater ,
PP. 30 31). His favorite sport, his o
was card-playmg. "Baron detested the outdoors;
he didn't like to get his hands dirty” (Perry, p.
24 ). “He was not athletically inclined ... the
slap of shufiling cards was his own Pied Piper”
(Barry Goldwater: The Biography of a Con¬
servative, Rob Wood and Dean Smith, p. 35).
And when he wasn't playing poker with the
boys, he would be drinking with them at the
splendid bar he had had installed in his home.
“. . . friends of his bachelor days invariably
stopped by for a drink" (Shadegg, p. 49).
Toward his three children—Barry, Robert,
and Carolyn—Baron was cold and remote. His
only concern seems to have been that they keep
quiet around the house. Josephine Goldwater
(“Mun' s, his wife, who is still alive, explains
that Baron "was always slightly intimidated by
them” (Shadegg, p. 48). He “ was never close
to his children” (Perry, p. 21).
Baron's oldest son ‘‘never really had be¬
come well acquainted with his father" (Mc¬
Dowell, p. 56 ', and the Senator himself says as
much: “I never really knew my father. I re¬
spected him” (Shadegg, p. 49 ). On another oc¬
casion, speaking of his uncle Morris, Barry
Goldwater said: “I was raised more by my uncle
than by my father" (Bell, p. 45 ).
# # #
Baron Goldwaters nickname was “Barry,” the
name given to his o dest son, and once in a
while this caused some confusion:
“Miin never had any trouble” Barry says, “she
never spoke to Dad in the same tone of voice she reserved
for us youngsters. But when I was growing up i fought
the idea of being called ‘little Barry/ ” (Shadegg, p. 48)
The Senator also recalls:
“When I was just six or seven, I can remember Dad
coming home from the store in the middle of the after¬
noon to change his shirt. He never learned to drive a
car, never performed any physical labor if he could hire
someone to do the work for him.” (Shadegg, p* 48)
The Senator himself, it might be mentioned
here, lias had an adolescent mania for mechan¬
ics ever since childhood, and today he drives not
only a Corvette Sting Ray polluted with gadgets,
but all sorts of aircraft.
Curiously, there is one memory that Barry
Goldwater has of his father that is still sharp
and vivid, a memory that he talks about at
length. One Fourth of July (incidentally, the
birthday of Goldwater’s brother Robert, 18
months younger), the 9-year-old Barry Gold-
water took a revolver and emptied it into the
ceiling of his home.
The noise created quite a commotion at that hour of the
morning. . . . Mun, awakened by the noise, called her
neighbors to say that it was just Barry celebrating the
Fourth of July. Her husband, shocked by the noise and
somewhat startled to see his nine-year-old boy with a
smoking revolver in his hand, pretended be had not been
affected by the unusual action until the ceiling overhead
began to drip whiskey. The random shots had found an
unfortunate target. Baron had two kegs carefully stored
on the second Uoor where he believed the summer heat
would aid in the aging.
“It's a tough thing to get punished for an accident,”
Barry says now. “There would have been no penalty for
firing the gun or making the noise or waking up the neigh¬
borhood, but because 1 accidentally spilled his booze, I
caught it something fierce.” (Shadegg, p. 50)
Senator Goldwater sums up his feelings about
his father this way: “I would never be where I
am today if it had not been for my mother, my
family, my wife—and" . . . no, not his father,
but “my wonderful environment" ( Saturday
Evening Post , 8/15/64).
Contributing to the estrangement between
the Goldwaters, father and son, may have been
their religions. Baron Goldwater was Jewish,
had attended a synagogue in San Francisco, and
although Phoenix had no synagogue and he
married an Episcopalian, he never renounced
his faith” (McDowell, p. 57 ). He even closed
the Goldwater stores on Jewish holidays ( Time,
8/28/64). His son was baptised, raised as an
Episcopalian, probably was never circumcised,
and reports, “I was told I was an Episcopalian be¬
fore I was told I was a Jew" (New York Post,
6/15/64). In this context, two things will be
pointed out. First, . . it should be noted that
many Arizona resorts traditionally have barred
Jewish members or guests—and there is no rec¬
ord of the Senator raising any fuss over this
open discrimination” (N.Y. P«f. 6/15/64);
second, the December, 1963, issue of Pageant
magazine quotes Senator Goldwater as having
said, on a Washington the Jew. •
very difficult for ni j e w m the wor jd
iewe d recenuy, i JUUt o toM
~ 0 station, that “It * ^ cigar ette holder in her mo
Washington ,ad nd the Jew- • • ■ reac hed for a cigarette, a visitor 0
verv difficult 101 j eW j n the wu
S greatest enemy rf • ^ *eir stup.d
been the Demom® J ’ ther countries. ■ • •
treaties they've mad d Jewish friends of
That's why I can't understan ou , fgr the
mine, in the big etties, gom.
j t for her. ‘No, thank you, she decl
do that myself. I'm stron» « - 5
a
Isaid young
7/16/64).
*
delinquency
was a streak of me
out in occasional
Democrats.” does not identify
Obviously, the Sena ae but ex-
with the Jewish part ° 1 George j eS sel
clusively with his mo . j have j n com-
has said,‘There is only one h n g ^ ^
mon with Barry Gold * ate, \ - sh n
broffiet and"hadbeen
nurse before she went West and me* and marne
Wh~~ . ,
distant, he and his mother
embarrass a playi
were
propriated bicycl
, *1 pivp ***---
uisiain, - . quite(tl tearful owners. 1
(Life)- “I can’t remember any time • '
a bike belonging
lyn, Bob or I kept any secrets from MJ i t , and hid the
Senator recalls (Shadegg, p. 49). WhedSmith, p. 39). I
water got married and moved into his new
nix home, Mun moved in next door (%
Smith, p. 66). So profound has his
a 10-gauge shotg
the street from \
odist Church, ar
fluence been over the Senator that he still
“a ban imposed by his |
Barry would lc
drinks coffee
trigger” (Perry,
who thought it would stunt his growth
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nurse before she went West and me an ^ 6/23/61). Possibly the anecdote that
Baron Goldwater. She w« 31 a ^ ^ bes , sums up Goldwater's relationship
Baron - nursuits which , best sums up ooiowatei s iciauuusi
was interested in many masc P ked mot her. When he was a teen-ager,
held no interest for her husband She smoked t
m
“ “asco^deted unladylike .0 decided ,0 learn how ,0 fly.
ill pwuuv TT
do so. And she wore knickers on the golf course
when, in her late 30’s, she took up golf (and
It T J _ A ^ ^ ^
went on to win the Arizona Women’s Amateur
a— t n 1
Championship)” (McDowell, pp. 56-57 ). “She
was one of the first women in Phoenix to drive
an automobile" Life , 7/12/63). “She rode
horseback and encouraged the youngsters to
ride" (Shadegg, p. 50), and tiCU ~ * U4 u '~
V w^v.w && , _ She taught her
children how to play [golf]" (Life). Mrs. Gold-
water herself says, ..
1 even played baseball with
them. Back in Waco, Nebraska, I was the only
girl on my hometown baseball team. I
# # \ Barry still suffers from a sense of guilt over
student days_“My early lessons all began at sixo
in the morning, I would sneak out of the house, go
airport, fly for an hour and be in the store long be 1
opened. But I didn’t tell Mun what 1 was doing. 1
only secret 1 tried to keep from her,
Barry's mother was not deceived. • • •
She learned the secret of Barry's early mm
partures when a piece in the local newspaper anno 1
that Barry Goldwater had acquired a private p!}
cense.
One night, to con
hauled the home)
porch of the faml
Church across the
munition, pulled
molished the por<
they ran for cove
Young Goldw
street-gang fig
been the ma
weapon—roc
trodueed, Bar
innovation
mother, wit!
(
6 ,u v ' 11 “‘J Wii uua^uau Ltam. i WaS
known as the Blue Racer. I could knock the ball
a mile and run like blazes” (Life). The Senator
adds, “It was Mun who took us camping, it was
Mun who taught us to shoot. It was Mun who
led us into the unexplored areas of Northern
Arizona” (Shadegg, p. 49). She was also adept
at poker, and when her oldest son “brought his
friends home for a game, Senator Goldwater re¬
calls, ‘She would get up and the next thing you
knew she had all the money’” (Times, 7/16/
64). An accomplished sharpshooter, Mrs. Gold-
water always kept a revolver beneath her pil
low at night (Shadegg, p. 50). At 89, Josephine
Goldwater ts still running like blazes. Inter-
■\Vhen he came home,” Mun says, I a 4 e n
he thought I was too old to share his ambition 5,
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despair. “Loi
Barry that si
on their firs
involvement
Barry never again kept anything from h' s ®
(Shadegg, p. 68)
degg, p- 57)
Those
Understandably, today Goldwater is ^
complain, “I can remember whei
tion betwee
not be surp
1 Odll ICIIICIIIUCI wiivn j
and ‘mother' were clean words” ( |
World Report , 2/12/62).
cinate your
in long-disi
radio tran
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Mrs. Goldwater set high standa A J 6/
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iirst-born. She once told him, “Ncvcf
race you can't win. If you lose, don t ^
about it” (Wood & Smith, p. 14)*
water thinks now perhaps she dem^ 11
of Barry [than of her other children]-
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raphy, "1 h
tographs c
(Wood &
what those
he rigged
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SEPTEMBER OCTOBER I9M
a little less than perfect. "There were those who
■•.id young Goldwater was headed for juvenile
delinquency” (Wood & Smith, p. 44). ' ' here
was a streak of meanness in him and it cropped
out in occasional pranks designed to annoy or
embarrass a playmate. More than once he ap-
propriated bicycles and hid them from their j
tearful owners. In one such escapade, he took ,
a bike belonging to Ray Johnson .. . dismantled 1
it, and hid the parts in his attic" (Wood &
Smith, p- 39 >. A prized possession of his was
a 1 0-gauge shotgun, mounted on wheels. Across
the street from his home was the Central Meth¬
odist Church, and “In the middle of the service,
Barry would load the cannon, and yank the
trigger” (Perry, p. 23).
One night, to commemorate his mother's birthday, he
hauled the homemade cannon up to the second-floor
porch of the family house, facing the Central Methodist
Church across the street. Barry loaded up with live am¬
munition, pulled the lanyard just as vespers ended, de¬
molished the porch railing and salted the worshippers as
fhev ran for cover. (Time, 6/23/61)
V
Young Goldwater also took great pleasure in
street-gang fights. Mud balls for a long time had
been the main weapon. “When the ultimate
weapon—rocks inside the mud balls— was in¬
troduced, Barry’s inventive mind was behind the
innovation” (Wood & Smith, p. 39). Even his
mother, with all her high hopes, began to
despair. “Long after he was married, Mun told
Barry that she and Baron had almost give up
on their first-born because of his almost daily
involvement in some sort of fist fight” (Sha~
degg, p. 57).
Those psychoanalysts who find a connec¬
tion between sadism and an anal character will
not be surprised that bathrooms seemed to fas¬
cinate young Goldwater. Interested even then
in long-distance communications, he set up a
radio transmitter, and “wired everything in
sight, from toilet seats to his bed headboard
{Time, 6/23/61). Also interested in photog¬
raphy, “He was an expert at taking candid pho¬
tographs of people in embarrassing situations
(Wood & Smith, p. 44)—and it’s easy to guess
what those “embarrassing situations” were. Once
he rigged up a microphone and a, loudspcakei
so he could talk to anyone in the bathroom. 11 is not hard
to imagine the shock ol young female visitors in Hie
Goldwater house when Barry’s voice would suddenly in¬
terrupt the quiet of the bathroom with a hearty “Hi there,
honev—what’s new?” (Wood & Smith, p. 42)
Gold water’s mother, having been a school¬
teacher, hoped her son would become anothei
John Stuart Mill, and she tried u to interest Barry
in reading Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire’ before he was eight years old
(Shadegg, p. 50). She soon learned better
speaking of Robert, her younger son, she once
commented, “Bob knew more than Barry ever
thought of knowing” (Life). Indeed, it’s quite
clear that, as far as intellectual endowment is
concerned, Goldwater can be compared only
with Warren Gamaliel Harding, of whom Wil¬
liam Allen White once said, “Hearing him speak
before a Rotary Club, one could almost be con¬
vinced that he had human intelligence.” Even
now Goldwater is touchy about his intelligence.
Although he has publicly wondered if he had
“the brains to be President,” when asked to
clarify this remark, “he replied sharply: T’ve
done all right in my life. I don’t have a Phi Beta
Kappa key, but I hire them’” {Times, 7/16/
64). When introduced to someone with a Ph.D.,
Goldwater is likely to mention that he has been
planning to take the Great Books Course {New
Republic, 7/20/63). And after he retires, “most
of all, I want to go back to college and get my
degree” ( Newsweek, 4/10/61).
You ns Goldwater was painfully aware that
his brother Bob knew more than he ever thought
of knowing. "Had it not been for the irksome
fact of his brilliant brother Bob, Barry wouldn't
have given his classroom failures a second
thought” (Wood & Smith, p. 45).
Carolyn Goldwater has said of her famous
brother, “I don’t think he ever read a book grow¬
ing up” (Time, 6/23/61), and Goldwater's
teachers would have wholeheartedly agreed.
Goldwater went to Fillmore Public School for
grades one, two, and three, then on to Monroe
for grades four through six. “Never an espe¬
cially good student, he was content to get by.
Bob, on the other hand, was so bright that he
7
a hv the time Barry
skipped two hall g rades *" at Kenilworth,
was ready to start seventy * „ (Woo d & Smith,
p.40. A*- fSJ'who did his ma.be-
matics homework tor him (W 1 ^ high
41)-—Goldwater enrolled at ttt ^ ^ ^
41 )—Oolawaiei - th •
school. By the end of .he Are. «-f •**_>”
school, by tne ciiu ul xhe
cipal invited Papa Goldwatei m f ’ .
Senator recalls. “He told my dad than alth
Senator recant ---- t n1lt he
he wouldn't exactly say I was flun ■ 8 -
would suggest I no. come back to Phoenix
W0UIU Suggest x iiv. -
Union the fall" (Wood & Snmh, P-«)■■ «»
Union in me wn \ *- v u , u
mother recalls, “They told us that he should
mouici j . * oc
become a priest, because the only thing he was
Decome a pnesL, i/<\
any good at was Latin” (Time, 6/23/61).
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Goldwater’s high-school record showed
i T
Uroiuwatci & lugn -
flunked courses and barely-passing grades in a
couple of others” (Bell, p. 34), but, unfortu-
;oupie oi uuitia e* ~ '
nately, “His record at the high school has been
d * 1 f 1 ___ Jf-v
laieiy, nn> ui -
nformally impounded; his grades aie no ones
business, a school official said recently (Perry,
3. 24)
;*
Not only was Goldwater a problem child
n school, he was also a problem around the
louse. As he says, “I imagine 1 was getting a
ittle hard to handle'* (McDowell, p. 54). So
Baron decided to enroll his son in Staunton
\/0 i l\ /I 1 I 1 i" (Tl T /\ n n ^ r s-%. K 14- 4- Li
(Va. Military Academy, where he felt the
rigorous physical and academic discipline would
straighten out Barry's wayward ways" (Mc¬
Dowell, p. 54). At Staunton, Goldwater re¬
peated his freshman year and “academy officials
repeatedly asked Baron Goldwater to take back
his undisciplined heir” (Time, 6/23/61). “To
41 .a
hear him tell it, he spy .' most of his time t lere
marching off the demerits he collected at every
turn” (Bell, p. 34). According to Goldwater’s
military commander, “There were times when
we thought we would never get him through this
school” (New Republic, 11 /23/63)
B
*
S'
•J*
- — iw lhc umver-
sity of Colorado in the fall of 1928—brother
Bob was now a full year ahead, at the l Jniver-
C 1 1 "i x t /\t 1 I I ^ ^ _ rni «
■ * ' w 5 vi il, LI 1 j|| y j
sity of Illinois. The Senator distinguished him¬
self immediately. During the very first semester"
he VVGQ H_»
u , * ° mai semester
he was dropped from the university for cutting
,00 many classes (Drew Pearson,
too many N >
He was later reinstated, but never fi n
He was *-
new semester. Goldwater backers even
, ;^ictctin(T that the Senate
new *
tnnmeiit are insisting that the Senator
i__ hie iAthp.r HipH u.
monicm ~ , *
university because his father died, but
water himself knows better. His own 0ll(
political henchman, Stephen Shadegg
written:
pressed’
he thought
served” (ib
didn’t maki
water left it
(Wood & S
several mo
The family now says Barry left school imm
following his father’s death to come home and a „ 0|
a portion of the burden of responsibility in the store,
is probably more fietion than fact. The store was \
the capable management of Sam Y\ ilson. (Shadegg, p
Goldwater himself, in 1960, told a grad^
ing class at Staunton Academy:
water deck:
courtship, 1
she accept
tic speech c
you, but I
to run. It’s
tremist of t
“I went part of a year to a university. 1 could easily ^
that early age that I’d probably be the next twenty je,
getting out. Therefore, I gave it up and went to woit
were man
(Bell, p. 35)
changed h t
lan.
Weep
“is one of
His mother has recalled: “He came homeh in Americ;
college and said
‘Don't 1 know enough favors sev
live without going back to school? Do I hi
to go back?' I said he didn’t” (Life), So
water remained at home and announced, “]
5/64). Af
self-confidc
“I’ll never
man of the house now" : Pageant , 12/63).
The next few years, Goldwater workedi
clubs or ar
the family department store and didn’t go
rally shy”
Mrs.
with girls. When Shadegg showed Goldwater
wife for t
biography he wrote about him, Goldwater
Peggy sub
husband's
the line: “Girls have always been susceptl more j n t er
to the charm of Baron Goldwater's oldest
is in socia
The Senator noted, in red pencil, “Very doi
ful from experience” (Shadegg, p. 72). K
she says, “
I know he
also about this time that Goldwater began u; Her sister-
ing flying lessons—the reader will rentf]
that “the man of the house now” did it
sly, without te ling his mother. Mrs. Gold 1
however, became suspicious. Goldwater r<
Mun never asked me what I was doing 11
that hour, and 1 didn’t tell her. I found out
Barry said
Peggy woi
The
born in
son was
Another s
that she thought 1 was visiting a woman -
another d;
I would do such a thing!” (McDowell, P-
In 1932, Barry Goldwater was iffi 10
to Margaret Johnson from Muncie, I n 11
Tow
u
an old-fa
who was heiress-apparent to the Bor
ing, 11/6:
recalls da
went
1 *
fortune. Peggy recalls that when she fl ie ^
lutuie Republican candidate for President
ciplinaria
United States, “she was not par
SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1964
d 'ate| v
,o »W t
e - This
duat.
V see at
y years
work.”
; from
igh to
. have
Gold-
, “I’m
).
ked in
»o out
ter the
r read
iptible
: son.”
Joubt-
It was
n tak-
f (Shadegg, p. 72). As for Goldwater,
he thought she was “extremely shy and re¬
served” (ibid.). At first, says Peggy, “Barry
didn’t make any fuss over me” (ibid.). Gold-
water eft it to her "to cultivate the relationship"
(Wood & Smith, p. 65). Peggy left Phoenix for
several months, and when she returned Gold-
water decided to make his pitch. After a 2-week
courtship, he proposed; after a discreet interval,
she accepted. Goldwater's passionately roman¬
tic speech consisted of these lines: “Look, I love
you, but I can’t keep this up. I have a business
to run. It’s got to be yes or no—right now" ( Ex¬
tremist of the Right, Fred J. Cook, p. 40). They
were married in 1934 and Mrs. Goldwater
changed her religion from Baptist to Episcopal¬
ian.
Weepy, timid, and frail, Peggy Goldwater
“is one of the shyest and most withdrawn wives
in American politics” (Times, 7/16/64). “She
favors severe dresses” (Good Housekeeping,
5 / 64 ). A friend, Eleanor Libby, says, “she lacks
self-confidence” (G.H.), and Peggy herself says,
“I’ll never make speeches or address women’s
clubs or any of that. 1 guess you'd say I’m natu¬
rally shy” (G.H.).
Mrs. Goldwater is certainly the perfect
wife for the Senator. “The degree to which
Peggy subordinates her own life to that ot hei
husband’s is remarkable” (G.H.). “She is far
more interested in her home and family than she
is in social problems or in politics’ (G.H.). As
she says, "I never try to tell him not to do what
I know he wants to do” (N.Y. Post, 7/19/64).
Her sister-in-law, Alice Johnson, maintains. If
Barry said he'd crawl across the Sahara Desert,
Peggy would do it with him” (G.H.).
The first of the Goldwater children was
born in 1936. A girl, she was named Joanne. A
son was born in 1938 and named Bairy Jr.
Another son, Michael, was born in 1940, and
another daughter, Margaret, in 1944.
Toward his children Goldwater has been
“an old-fashioned patriarch” (Good Housekeep »-
ing, 11/62). “Daddy ruled with an iron hand,”
recalls daughter Joanne, “and whatever he said
went” (Esquire, 10/62). “He’s been the dis¬
ciplinarian,” says son Michael (G.H., 11/62).
Barry Jr. is easily the most intriguing of the
Goldwater children. “Barry Goldwater’s rela¬
tionship with his oldest son has not been relaxed
as with Joanne” (Esquire). The Senator seems to
j have been rather antagonistic and reserved
toward Barry Jr., as though he were a rival. And
I Goldwater has never laid a hand on any of the
children except for his oldest son:
“One time 1 got in Dad's darkroom and messed things
up. 1 was ten. He cuffed me—well, he knock* d heck out
of me. I never will forget that.’' (G. H., 11/62)
When Barry Jr. was attending the University of
Colorado he suddenly became quite “nervous”
(Esquire) and had to drop out of school. “I had
no interest, no sense oi direction, and no desire.
I was in trouble, and the worst thing was that
Dad was really never there physically when I
needed him most. He did write me some beauti¬
ful letters, though” { G.H ., 11/62). Barry Jr.
has also said, “The only fatherly advice I ever
really got has been through letters” (Esquire).
Understandably, Goldwater's oldest son
doesn’t rah-rah his father the way the other chil¬
dren do. When brother Mike told a reporter,
“We’re both sympathetic to Dad’s views,” Barry
Jr. protested: “We've never been exposed to the
views of the other side” ( G.H. , 11/62). And
Mrs. Goldwater tells this remarkable anecdote:
1,4 At the store, when Barry, Jr. worked for the summer in
the credit department, he would call up someone and not
say ‘This is Barry Goldwater, Jr/ Instead, he would say
‘This is Barry Morris.’ Imagine! He wouldn't use his own
name.” (G. //., 11/62)
The parallels between the way Baron Gold-
water treated his oldest son, and the way Barry
Goldwater treated his oldest son, are worth not¬
ing. Baron was distant and reserved toward
Barry, and Barry was distant and reserved
toward Barry Jr. Baron beat up Barry when
Barry was 9; Barry beat up Barry Jr. when
Barry Jr. was 10. The similarities between
father and son even include bouts with “nerv¬
ousness" during their youth.
It was Mrs. Goldwater who brought public
attention to the fact that her husband had had
two nervous breakdowns one after the birth of
their first child, the second after the birth of
9
The second source* page 51 of thai
^ M N jrW 4 M * ll * jP ’S"’* -
, The reference appeared m theMay. biography , Bern- GoWwnrer: T» e Bio,
*£* , Jo GW ™ “ profi ^ fl Conservative , by Rob Wood a„ d
f Mrs Goldwater written by Al Toffler. | c „ uh Thov write:
lrs. Ooiaweu- od Qf
i • 1017 when, 3»n n P
One crisis occurred in 19 a nervous break-
itense work in the store, “ went back to work. But
own. Alter a lengthy re. • ^ Presco tt, Arizona, to
tvo years later, when he ^ spent five days
elp open a new branch ot ^ again> « H is nerves
ind nights "» h ? u t S ee P’ lvlrs . Goldwater. “He couldn’t
iroke completely, says immediately said
leep nights. He was very He was sea sick
vc were going to get awa> beach and just
.11 <* way »”■ ““ 5 ta" warenlly, ■«
ested.” The change of pace vus»,
teeded.
Smith. They write:
recuperating
ally run-dov
orderet
As business pressures mounted, Barry tried t„
the challenge by working day and night. He
short-tempered and couldn't sleep. Finally, ,
a particularly brutal period of overwork in 1936, he
‘i mild nervous breakdown. After a long rest he rett
to the store, only to crack again two years later. D 0ct(
warned him that his life might be a short one if h e
n 4»1/; n n oil none U«
accepting m
It’s a
ter’s two
work in tl
do with il
learn to relax. Barry tried taking cat naps. He learn,
hold his temper in check.
istic juver
water in
“He
ter brant
Senator Goldwater has aaid tot Ms wifc
The third source: the San
Chronicle, which has quoted Barry Goldwatt
Jr. as saying. “My father did have one bier 1
live mice
the secre
, term “nervous breakdown” loosely dur- down when he was 26 years old. But he h
e . . .jj _tiint hp p.ver had a umrVina too hard and it was strictlv nh
tility ma
could be
ed the term dwvuud -- -
g this interview, and denies that .e : ever a
l this interview, aim u«..- —* ---
rvous breakdown ( Parade, 8/_3/64).
vsician. Dr. Leslie R. Kober of Phoenix, is
en more forceful: “Barry Goldwater never
been working too hard and it was strictly ph;
ical. It was not mental.”
ing when
Smith, p
Tered a nervous DicaKuuwn m
any other time. ... A few times he has been
ysically exhausted from his work, but so has
n / n 1 _ \ r I rt. t n K IO 1
are roreciui. vanj — --
a nervous breakdown in 1937, 1939, or
. . a £ —, hoc hppn
-i“
O'
partmen
made G
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linity. L
the time, however, he would have leaned
women's
^leauy cAuau^tu
ryone” (Parade). To be charitable, let us say
t Senator Goldwater and his physician must
awfully forgetful. Because there are three
er sources that testify to the fact that Gold-
ter has had nervous breakdowns.
overwork never causes a nervous breakdown, signed a
“ men’s u:
A nervous breakdown is a lay term that coves
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a variety of mental illnesses, and a mental ill
ness is just that—a mental, not a physical, il
advertis
New Yt
ness.
It is worth pointing out that in recent ye
about h
The first: the December, 959, issue of
Pageant Magazine, in which At Toffler (again)
writes:
Goldwater has also had some rather unusual ai!
nients:
water n
He sa’
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with th
(Shade
In 1936, after a stretch oi intensely hard work in
V
the family store, Goldwater suffered a nervous break¬
down. Following a period of rest he returned to the busi¬
ness, took on the presidency of the company, and plunged
in again. Two years later, when he went to Prescott,
Arizona, to open a new branch, Goldwater worked five
days and five nights without any sleep. On the fifth night,
he recalls, “I just blew my stack.”
# #
]ln 19571 Goldwater had complained about pains in
arms and wrists and aches in his back. . . • D r - h
treated him from time to time as the unexpecte
sometimes very painful attacks overtook hint. (Be >
sieres a
sible th
137-138)
veal dj
When a doctor told him he wouldn’t have long to
live unless he slowed down, Goldwater taught himself to
take cat-naps and tried to bridle his temper. He has never
had a third breakdown, but he is still faintly tense and
can fly into a tantrum on provocation. . . .
Goldwater “at the time refused to tc
exact nature of the ailment" ( Times , 7/21 /
provok
hood,;
in a 1;
seems
the sec
Four years later, in September, 1961
to join
It is especially noteworthy that the author _ and
this was as recently as 1959—went on to write:
This strain of physical and mental resoftfjB
parentlv caught up with him when he arrived al lS
the Mid'* 8 '
tired out that his doctors reportedly told him to g°
Even
been t
nix home after a series of speeches in
flying.
not a
for two weeks. ( Sell, p. 220)
Today the sound of crackling ice or the crunch of
teeth into a slice of crisp toast can set him on edge.
Goldwater told Bell he refused to do any
ihing, but an Associated Press release oi
si
pareni
father
sorts
tember 18, 1961, states:
edly c
Senator Barry Goldwater was confined to
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1964
inerating from what his iamily described as a gener-
r « Cl run-down condition. The Arizona Republican, who
a * ordered by his physician to take a long rest, was
accepting no phone calls....
It’s anybody's guess what caused Goldwa-
• s two nervous breakdowns, but perhaps his
work in the department store had something to
do with it. The first recorded incident of a sad¬
istic juvenile practical joke perpetrated by Gold-
water in his adulthood dates from that time:
“He • harrassed employees with the Goldwa-
ter brand of practical jokes, such as shipping
live mice through the pneumatic tube system to
the secretarial pool" {Time, 6/23/61). His hos¬
tility manifested itself in other ways too. "He
could be a roaring volcano, ranting and swear¬
ing when faced with a trying situation" ( Wood &
Smith, p. 53). It may be that working in a de¬
partment store that appealed mainly to the ladies
made Goldwater feel uneasy about his mascu¬
linity. Later on, for example, he abandoned
women’s garments and with great fanfare de¬
signed and launched the famous "Antsy Pants,’’
men’s undershorts with large red ants on them,
advertised in the January 3, 1948, issue of the
New Yorker Magazine. In recent years, asked
about his work in the department store, Gold-
water makes it cjuite clear what he did not sell.
“He says he has sold everything in the store
with the exception ol brassieres and corsets
(Shadegg, p. 64). “I sold everything but bras¬
sieres and shoes” {Pageant, 12/59). Is it pos¬
sible that Goldwater's nervous breakdowns were
provoked by his intense anxiety about his man¬
hood, anxiety that was aggravated by his work
in a ladies' department store? This question
seems especially pertinent since, shortly aftei
the second breakdown, he made a madcap effott
to join the Army Air Corps.
„■> *.•* ***;
Even before entering the Army, Gokiw utei hud
been busy with obviously masculine pursuits
flying, shooting, and sports (although he was
not a gifted athlete"—Shadegg, p. 108). Ap¬
parently it was not enough, for Goldwater, the
her of two children, overage, and with all
sorts of physical limitations, was single-mind-
edly determined to enlist—and this was almost
a full year before war broke out.
At 32, Barry Goldwater was determined to win his
wings in the Army Air Corps despite the handicap o i his
earlier knee injury. He pestered everybody from recruit¬
ing sergeants to senators. I c refused to take * k no” or even
k ‘hcll, no” for an answer.
It appeared from the outset that his chances could
be rated slightly below those of Whistler’s mother. . . .
Barry was too old, too married, and too uncertain of eye,
being bothered by an astigmatism which made it impos¬
sible for him to meet the exacting eyesight requirements.
Then, of course, there were those squeaky knees that car¬
ried him around as stiffly as a wooden Indian.
The Air Force was looking for daring young physi¬
cal specimens in their late teens and Goldwater’s quali¬
fications appeared rather ridiculous, ...
When recruiters smilingly showed him the door,
Goldwater appealed directly to Senator Ernest W. Mc¬
Farland ... and to Senator Carl Hayden. (Wood & Smith,
p. 69) j
Time magazine has said Goldwater was “clearly
unfit for service" (6/23/61), but Goldwater
managed to wangle into the Air Corps anyway.
And his subsequent military career was marked
by his usual delinquency:
*. . Try as it might, the Army Air Corps was never able
to submerge the Goldwater personality. He was a young
fellow on the loose, looking for adventure. If he couldn’t
ind it, he was ready at ali times to settle for a bit of hell¬
raising. (Bell, p. 42)
And by his usual destructiveness:
Long a firearms enthusiast, he became enthralled with
aerial gunnery'. ... The first time Goldwater flew on a
gunnery exercise ... he experienced a case of trigger
happiness. His plane was armed with a 20 millimeter
cannon. Barry dived low over the target, aimed, and
emptied the cannon on the first pass. The target was
blown to atoms in the one giant blast of gunfire. The gun
barrel w'as so hot it had to be replaced on his return to the
base. His eagerness cost Goldwater a round of drinks
for the other fliers on the gunnery exercise. (Wood &
Smith, pp. 70, 72, 73)
The igh he never saw any action and seems to
have been just a Society Soldier, Goldwater
exited from the service in August, 1944, a Lieu¬
tenant-Colonel. Evidently he had found the mili-
i tary life so pleasant that he ne\ci leally left it.
One of the first things he did on returning home
was to organize the Arizona National Guard.
After his election to the Senate, he became
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ommanding officer ot ^9^^ of Con¬
or Force Reserve Squa ^ ^ members,
ressmen and ong he American Legion
ressmen and Congress American Legion
oday is a ^ ° ; h wars, and a Major-
ld the Veterans of Foreig In 1950, he
meral in the Air or Korean War. He
;neral in the Air he j^ ore an War. He
en volunteered to jfc ^ MacAr thur, who
and ad-
iprocated his affection -*** and ad .
3ws, Goldwater thin s _ .» (Why
rals, are, in fact, s ^ rate | is t0 “f ear the
>t Victory?), and he a vis ^ 155).
lians ... they’re taking over (Cook,p.
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Then uoiawdici i;f e
:uti ,e in , lad.es; da par maen. store af ter
ithffie military, he was not especially happy
He came home restless and sober, his hair turned
iv. During the next four years, Peggy realized t *
rry was ill at ease and directionless. He had lost in er-
: in the store and tried to occupy himself with local
ic activities. But it was not enough. He drifted. (O.H.,
5 / 64 )
Goldwater got out of his rut by enteiing poli¬
tics. And although his father was a Democrat,
his grandfather was a Democrat, his Uncle Mor¬
ris was a Democrat, and his brother Bob was a
Democrat, Goldwater decided to become a Re¬
publican—like his mother. He ran for the Phoe¬
nix City Council in 1947, was elected, and spent
his term cutting finances and closing down the
city's brothels.
From then on his political rise has been
meteoric. From a city councilman in Phoenix
and a campaign manager of a gubernatorial can-
■i- v -f _
didatc he became the junior Senator from Ari-
■
zona in 1952. Only eight years later he was a
serious contender for the Presidential candi¬
dacy, and now he is the Republican nominee for
the highest office in the land—and in the world.
On a social level, success did not change
t S ta ^ I &
man who scared „:_i. . y° u ng 7/30/64V At hie <Ci^n f \ Pi Krvni P which h
the Colorado River and reporterI ba*
adio to Robert (“Believe It or Not")
everything went okay until I d ec j
. . 1 announced, ‘i
bers
thai
u
fires
(S
live the broadcast, the boat is sinking,
was all shook up” (McDowell p. 79). N
days, every Christmas Goldwater gtves his
framed candid photo ot herself in an u ,
tering pose” ( G.H. , 5/64). And then there
the Senator’s lifelong interest in bathr
He is not only addicted to obscenities
“I’m
four of th
on the air
Home)
a
And as
Year’s I
u
lawn,
toilet p<
with scatology, and not only is he candid ay 5/64).
complaining, “my backside is taking 0n
shape of an airline seat” (Time, 5/15/64),
his bathroom at home is “papered with excels
1 r * T * m _ ^ 1 - i * #
T
photos of every type of military and civilian aii
craft he has ever flown” (American Ho « (
Goldw;
3/61). On the walls of the guest bathroom
p resent
man w
mothei
candid photos of family friends, and, says
victim
Senator. “When we have guests, they always p cation
amine the walls for pictures of people
know” ( American Home). As for the Gold’
every
his ch
ters’ apartment in Washington, "All four rf
and the ceiling of the powder room carry ca
Weekh
photos of their friends" (American
synorp
spitefi
such
7/23/61). And I cannot resist mentioning
of his
Goldwater once said, “As a military man, wh;
his th
push the red button I want to know I ca
best n
the men's room in the Kremlin” (Bell, p. 19<
for-al!
His reading habits have not imp r(
sions,
much, either.
. . . Goldwater reads and rereads Karl von Clause™
secuti
and c
sanes
■ * • tt 1 vuuo auu i vi ~
On War y with its exposition of total destruction o *1
enemy by any available means.. _
Kut, mostly, “I read these little two*bit
> ->u buy,'’ he said. u ln fact, I usually have a brie
with Mickey Spillane and all of those things/’ (BdlP*
in H
forH
And when he is not reading On Wav or
of Ai
Ann;
Spillane, Goldwater watches shoot-’em up 5
reluc
TV, for he “is an addict of TV Westerns
watches six or seven a week” (McCd^ s
ocra
(Shr
man who scared sales girls with mice in pneu
matic tuhpc ct;n i_. . 1 F Ilc n-
The door knocker at his Washington ap
strat
scan
-n practical jokes
act . s of hostilit y- As he
it himself, once he went ^ $ ^ re ‘
ne went on a trip down
/ 3()/,(i4 L At his $150,000 home, which
500 feet above the floor of Paradise
you.
which has a burglar alarm, he does
i * i /v a ^ 1 ■
yom
Pyle
target shooting (American Hofnc)
watching. Goldwater’s brother Robert
cam
otr I Eivin mv-UL. lOHtR 1964
t| ia t “he was always crazy about going to j “double-crossed" Goldwater. In fact the Sen-
(Shadegg* P« 73); he still is. | ator's political career sounds like a continuous
- ** - . I paranoid nightmare—he is repeatedly “knifed
ui> m nuts about fireplaces,” he smiled. “We have
f them in this house. . . . Sometimes l even turn
*° Ur .° n\r conditioning so I can have a fire/' (American
on the an
Home)
in the back by his friends.
In ! 952 Goldwater ran against Ernest Me-
_ 4 1 M 1! _ _ _
Far land for the Senatorship, and was elected on
° ht , fits a Presidential eandidate, “On New Eisenhower's coattails—Goldwater says he was
Yea/s Eve the Senator may turn up on the front | " the greatest coattail rider in history __ (Mc-
i kn in full-dress suit, stuffing a cannon with
toilet paper [!] and firing into the night” ( G.H.,
Dowell, p. 100). In his speeches Goldwater
harped a great deal on the Korean War. He
5/64).
'H
*
flatly stated, “Truman had started his war in
Korea” (McDowell, p. 97)—and in one speech
he said:
Th
Goldwater’s life. Although incomplete, they
UUlUWtttv'i - - - . . .
present an unpleasant enough picture. This is a
man who obviously identifies with a masculine
mother rather than an effeminate father, and is
victim to all the ambivalence that such indentiii-
I challenge the junior Senator from Arizona [McFarland]
to find anywhere within the borders of Arizona or within
the borders of the United States a single mother or father
who counts our casualties as cheap . . . who would be
willing to exchange the life of one American boy for nine
Red Communists or 900 Red Communists, or nine mil¬
lion Red Communists. (McDowell, p. 97)
VICUW ID uu -- | lon Kea v omniums. , 1” '
(in ! The memory of this speech did not trouble him
MSS'— A hewasac,ual,y
synonymous).'and in his irrationaily cruel and for expanding “Truman's War.
syiiKjiij / J -- I
spiteful pranks he manifests all the hostility that
such ambivalence creates. But the seriousness
_ . i * 1 _ _ ^ A*, n
of his malady, the extent to which it dominates i {W h y Not Victory?, P . 31)
* ^ 4 - n A * j j
There was the spectacle of Korea, where with victory in
our hands, we chose instead the bitterness of stalemate.
his thinking'and the danger it represents are 1 ... Red China... exists
best revealed in the field of politics. On the free- , to a iiow victory over the Red Chinese
V • , • _ _11 onrorPC- I /¥/ • I_ .*) OSU
for-all stage of American politics all his aggres- : (Victory?, P . 98)
. i i at nPI 4 - I
sions, hostility, all his fears and delusions of per-
In his campaign against McFarland he also
secution, all his infantile fantasies of revenge delivered himself of his first McCarthyism. Wit
and dreams of total annihilation of his advci as much substantiation > di>iinguishi.d
saries found a perfect platform.
Let us then review his political career.
ator from Wisconsin usually had for his accusa-
Goldwater stepped into big time politics
tions Goldwater declared “McFarland is a so-
Liu/iio, _ _ ___ , i _ mnfp
in 1950, when he became campaign manager
for Howard Pyle, who was running foi Go\ erno
cialist.” In fact, “McFarland was no more a
U* ttan «- MuRiuley had been
Of Arizona. Pyle’s chief opponent was a woman
(Cook, p. 58). When, after the election. Mc¬
Farland attacked him, Goldwater whined I
Anna Frohmiller. “Barry sensed a deep-seated h ‘^ e ncver s hown this man anything but kind-
reluctance on the part of Republicans and Dem
PvpriltlVe
ocrats alike to name a woman Chief Executive
ailKU Lv Liauiu Cl — - .
(Shadegg, P . 93). He warned a Re P ubhc *
r HOW he could do What he did is beyond
— t£y meeting, n y-u - h wit h
scared out by this woman, Im t \Y^ er e’s
uul uy ll iio yyuuiw-j ” \\/UprP S
you. J may even pull out of the patt>- _
J r _ , o n. XU).
v may cvcii pun uui vy*. - i oat
your guts anyway?” (Wood & Smith, P- ^
mv understanding” (Shadegg, p- .
' Goldwater's devotion to McCarthy is one
strategy Ineeting, “if you guys are going bo ^ ^ few consiste^es of his; cateeo H.
guis anyway: v VY ^ ... +u, he-
p yle won the Governorship, and piomp ^
jx^ wun me oovcinut.Tiup? “ * . u n
came the first in a long list of politician.
not only voted against censuring the Senator
hut said “Do 1 stick up for McCarthy. Yes.
hale always done it and I intend to continue.
These people who would like to do away
i • *
15
, of people who
u 'ire the type . t « (/) mi' r '
, ith McCarthy are r 0 mmu nists ,
wlt > Hk-e to coddle t-e' “j 0 e . . •
' te * l%
-* * Sts?- *. «*,
at: r==
Wisconsin and to > ^ state Con
state Conven
tion (Speecti o /5? v
7 (^P CCCil ~ A/ n /57 )
tion of Wisconsin, 6/8/3> /;
Examples of fltfjjfj
Carthy-Iike tactics are ab d was inV es-
There was the time tne in the
,ice of MC"
own use ut
There was the time u* Qn£ int in the
tigating the Kohler strike . ^ ^ & Bureau
hearings, Goldwater cryptically
of Labor statistic ^10 strikes in the period
d ea ths were caused by CX pointed OU t
1936-19 • • • ■ , thirty-seven killed were
that thirty-two of the tni^ y ^ ^ £ p„
strikers or strike sympathizers
6/77 fo } i960, at the conclusion of the Senate
committee’s hearings on labor racketeering,
Goldwater was quoted by the press as say in-
Bob Kennedy had ‘run out on the Reuther inves-
DUU ricimwj nuu - - .
tigation.’ Young Kennedy telephoned him in
anger and asked what more Goldwater thought
he should do. . . . Goldwater answered that he
lie D11UU1U - -- --
wanted no more meetings. ‘I want to get back to
. . r J _ u_._ _ ’
wainw iiv niviv in - -— c?
Arizona now. I don’t want any more hearings!
‘Then why did you say it?' Kennedy asked.
‘That’s politics,’ answered Goldwater” (Wood &
Smith, p. 100).
1, jy, x / .
In 1958, when Goldwater was running for
re-election to the Senate against McFarland, he
made a fp.rrihlp mietal'i* Un oo^ —
j mv u.^uiiiol iuLi aiianu, 11c
‘““V a terrible mistake. He said that McFar¬
land, while he had been Arizona’s Senator, had
voted no on an issue of importance to the
people of that State. Goldwater’s campaign man¬
ager, Stephen Shadegg, recalls: “McFarland’s
press experts demanded an immediate apology
and offered proof that their ex-Senator had In
fact, voted ‘yes’ on the issue Tt „ /
v/\ Lvl 11 cfQ. 1T"!
act, voted ‘yes’ on the issue.... It was a serious
e lee ’ZZTr ght affeCt the outcome of
rater decided not to apologize He h -a a d "
gnore the whole incident “This de t0
he estimahie m. cu , ’ lhls decision,” savs
5 “ U1V U1C waoie incident “Thk ria • • „
” estilMl * Mr. Shadegg “ was . ' a >' s
- political wMo m VaT“ 0n, ,0
unns hi« civ . 1 uaa acuuireH
( ibid-)
nr-
a
G0 l d !!l.re?atedly-a" d later *«• h-
mak ,‘hnut when you remind him of
the collar
al,s Z ° n D ^ 0 d 2 '-, T 1 '
, . told the Phoenix Medical Associ,
Tte United States no longer has a pl ace ,
United Nations." On Ian. 2, 6 3. Gold,-]
S a Farm Bnreau dinner I hope ttis [C# J
trouble ] results in the Un.ted States getting
i the United Nations and taking care ofour 0v ,'
knitting” On May 12, 1963, Goldwater ^
asked, on Hy Gardner’s New York TV progra]t ;
^Would you as President favor getting out of t;
U n ?” and the Senator replied. Having
what the U.N. cannot do, I would have to
a ° 6 tt>en senw-va.
^^the nuclear-t
ing ting agai« s1
8 vo«ng He v
tl0 °inst the Kem
aga f 27 Senat
on 6 °k,
rightS It is clear
gest it.
99
, v * _
In San Francisco on February 12, Gold.
« i * p 1 _ _ 1^ „ .4 nTTAv rnti r\ A _ T
water was asked if he had ever favored America^
i z' ^ T \fo ti Afic' ^ i
waiu -
withdrawal from the United Nations. This,
/ / * _ 1 A O n T 1.
1
replied icily, “is as complete a falsehood as I have
, 1 . * JP- ^ “ y f
ever heard” (Drew Pearson, 5/20/64).
❖
*
*
o
nee
elected to the Senate, Goldwatei
chalked up a record that is unique for its nega¬
tivism and is unbalanced by anything positive.
As he put it, in May, 1961, tb My aim is not to
pass laws, but to repeal them.” In his 12 years
in Congress, he has not had one important bill
passed, but
A _ 7 _ He wears his lost causes—his no
votes in the Senate against overwhelming ma¬
jorities .■" n M
like merit badges” (S.E.P., 8/15/64).
1 ie vote he is most proud of is the one where
he was the sole dissenter (Cook, p. 108).
“A fellow Senator says, ‘Barry doesih
know what compromise means’ ” ' ~
jT A \ Y T *
choice
‘ v “ uvv w,1 ui compromise means’ ” (Times, 7/lw
64). His first vote in the Senate was aga®* 1
confirming Charles Bohlen. Eisenhower*
’ as Ambassador to Russia. He was
of the sponsors of the Bricker Amendin'® 1
ich would have severely limited the
nt s treaty-making powers, even thou?
Eisenhower anH
lc Political wisdom Goldwater V ! Y t0 Ei8 enhower and n f P 7 A it *
years of service m the Senate „ | ^d, along with 22 others, aeainst the <*fl
ln g of Senator
22 others, against the cenS l
from the fact t
BiUion-doUa
o
c
Arizona, thou
been heard to
out Of the Sta
(Perry, P* >
of the grandes
to Goldwater
( Bell, p* 59) *
Goldwat
trivial or how
to run for Pr€
he break the i
papers need
newspaper c
days). Duri
Goldwater c
body anythir
During
fact that a c
tional camp
more hand;
(Times, 3/*
Anoth
<
so dead-set
pearances
Senator W
resigning tv
And a
‘We want
Madison
tiently; ‘Y,
(Times, 7
Whei
after winr
Albert C.
. t president Kennedy's 1962 bill to cut
ers, 4 uritli A nthpr Spnntnr*; ^crninct
ta
S ’ff ° He voted, with 4 other Senators, against
fiftS ansion of the cultural-exchange program.
an eX g n Senators joined him in 1963 in oppos-
r ' ,ine nuclear-test ban. hi 1961 he was one of
inS 1 •<, against the National Defense Educa-
8 v0 . . ^e was the only Senator to vote
tl0n jnst the Kennedy-Ervin bill in 1959. He was
1* 27 Senators voting against the new civil-
r ’“ htS .. * s c i ea r that principle is not his motive
m the fact that time and again he votes for
h llion-dollar Federal reclamation projects for
A zona though for nowhere else, and "he has
wn heard to say to friends: ‘They’d run me
ut of the state if I didn’t support this one’ ”
l ’p crr> p . 61 ). As one biographer wrote, in one
of the grandest typographical errors oi all time,
to Goldwater “a principal was a principle”
(Bell, p. 59).
Goldwater rarely gives in, no maiu.” u> \
trivial or how vital the point. When he decided
to run for President, his advisers suggested that
he break the news on a Sum ay (since Monday s
papers need news) and avoid Friday (because
newspaper circulation dips sharply on Satui-
days). During the Friday news conference
Goldwater commented, “I don’t concede any¬
body anything ’ (Times, 1 / 4 / 64 ).
During the primary campaign, “despite the
fact that a decision had been made by his na¬
tional campaign managers not to schedule any
more handshaking tours, he went on one
(Times, 3/4/64).
Another time, Goldwater suddenly became
so dead-set against making a lew public ap
pearances “that his California manager, formei
Senator William F. Knowland, came close to
resigning twice" ( Times, 5/12/64).
And another time, “When a crowd chante ,
We want Barry V for 10 minutes at a ial y in
Madison Square Garden he shouted i m P a ^
tiently: ‘You’ll get him if you’ll just be quiet.
(Times, 7/16/64). r _ .
When Goldwater arrived in California
after winning the nomination, his friend en *
Albert C. Wedemeyer, retired, said.
“I suppose you’ll want to give these men an opp
tunity” and nodded at the crowd of reporters.
The Senator’s chin jutted out and he said: “No, I
don’t. There’ll be no press conference.” ( Times , 7/
31/64)
Many reporters have remarked on the Sen¬
ator's deep-seated horror about having to com¬
promise:
He will not court people. And Goldwater can be
very rude—for a politician, almost unbelievably so. He
will make dates for public appearances and then cancel
them at the last minute for no apparent reason except that
he is tired and the engagement bores him.... One day in
Minneapolis he kept cutting each of his engagements so
short that he wound up at a college more than a half-hour
before he was scheduled to speak. The crowd was^ only
beginning to drift in, but Goldwater would not wait. As
far as he was concerned he was ready to speak and he
began. (S.E.P., 8/15/64)
The Senator himself has observed what
happens to people who compromise: To con¬
stantly lean on others for direction and to use
their suggestions without question develops
weakness" (Wood & Smith, p. 91).
A constant, irrational, and unnecessary
show of strength—even at the cost of losing an
advantage—is of course a camouflage for a fear
of weakness. But Goldwater s masculine fa
cade fools many people. Time has called him
“a man's-man” (6/14/63), Jack Bell has called
him “a man’s man" (p. 49), and Mssrs. Wood
and Smith have called him a '‘man's man” (p.
12) Goldwater, after all, boasts of having given
90 pints of blood to the Red Cross in the past
24 years (Times, 1/16/64), of having piloted
75 different aircraft, including 16 jets (Mc¬
Dowell, p. 62). “As late as 1961 he . . . made
a spirited but unsuccessful attempt to he re¬
called for active duty in the Korean War
(Wood & Smith, p. 91). He has “six times shot
the treacherous rapids of the Colorado River
in a wooden boat” (Wood & Smith, p. 12).
When he wants to travel somewhere, If the
commercial airlines aren’t flying, Goldwater will
hike over to a hangar, rent himself a ship, and
take off in the foulest kind of weather (Be ,
n 220). Already he has crashed his plane into
the side of an Arizona mountain and wrecked
it (Wood & Smith, p. 58).
That such a man be considered a coward
17
FACT
ould be intolerably worse, in his mind, than
would DC llliuiciauij —
being a fool, a liar, or a warmonger On TV,
he turned red in the face when recalling the
Governor Scranton had called him a moral
coward.” And it is a phrase that his enemies
have an annoying habit of throwing at him:
“Mr. Rcuther accused me today ot being a moral
coward,” he said in a voice packed with emotion. In
my section of the country when one man calls a man a
coward, he smiles.” (Bell, p. 96)
After endorsing Nixon for the Piesidency in
1960. Goldwater said, "I got a lot of nasty mail,
some’ of it calling me yellow, and other worse
things—no, nothing worse. There isn’t anything
worse” (Rumbles Left and Right, William F.
Buckley Jr., p. 25).
That Goldwater is sensitive to accusations of
cowardice is understandable. He possesses a
political courage of the kind that McCai thy was
so proud of: the courage of slandering estab¬
lished personalities and institutions (mostly
with the immunity of the Senate), the courage
to deny, with a straight face, statements made
on a previous day, and the courage to verbally
attack a distant, commonly hated enemy who
cannot retaliate (like Peking or Moscow h
the most extravagant threats. In short
courage of a cowardly juvenile delinquent. One
of the examples of such courage was Gold-
water’s declaration to a Republican bicakfast
meeting in Mississippi that “Earl Warren is a
Socialist” (Times, 4/17/59). But there are
many others:
First, there was Mr. Conservative, Robert
A, Taft. Goldwater beamishly reports that after
he arrived in the Senate he helped stir up a
little tempest” against Taft. “We accused Mr.
Republican of me-tooism. We criticized Taft’s
backing of a ‘little’ federal subsidy for housing,
health, and education” ( Bell, p. 61). Other Re¬
publican leaders Goldwater has attacked: Sher¬
man Adams; Herbert Brownell; Arthur S. Flem¬
ming t whom he accused of offering “socialized
medicine”—Bell, p. 116); Richard Nixon (for
“appeasement” and “surrender” in 1960 to
Rockefeller, for “me-tooism” after the 1960
titvuvn —Buckley, p- 25; Bell, p. 127), Rocke¬
feller for being “out to destroy the Republican
election
Party” (McDowell, p. 26); and, of course, Pres.
it i nt Eisenhower. He not only consistently
voted against Eisenhower’s major proposals,
but once called Eisenhower’s domestic program
a “dime-store New Deal.” When asked about!
Milton Eisenhower’s running for office he com¬
mented. “One Eisenhower in a generation is
The motivating psychological force of such
attacks is an inner conviction that everybody
hates him, and it is better to attack them first
That is why the theme of betrayal— so^ typical
of the paranoiac-
utterances. The classical acting out
feelings came about waen he appeared, during
a speech at Redding, California, after Eisen¬
hower “betrayed” him with a declaration of
* J “an arrow tucked
is recurrent in Goldwater’s
of such
Republican principles, with
under his armpit so that it seemed to be im¬
bedded in his back. He told his audience . . - it
illustrated ‘some of the problems I’ve had in t e
last few days’” (Times, 5/26/64). Pictures of
the Senator with an arrow in his back were
^jotriKntprl in California during the pri¬
mary campaign.
President Eisenhower betrayed him many
times before, during his administration.
“The President took a firm position with us, or so
it seemed at the time, 51 Goldwater related. “He said he
shared our feelings in the matter. We went away satisfied
we had him convinced.” Then he added wryly: “Within
a week he sent up a minimum wage message.” (Bell, p.
119)
Another time, Goldwater tried to talk
Eisenhower out of supporting a drought-relief
bill. Again he was sure Eisenhower was con¬
vinced, “In a wry voice, Goldwater added the
denouement: T thought he was sold on the idea,
but three days later ... he sent down to Con¬
gress a seventy-nine million dol ar drought-
relief bill” (Bell, p. 111).
Again:
“Shortly after I was appointed chairman of the Republi¬
can Senatorial Campaign Committee I went to see him at
the White House to report on what 1 knew about the
political situation as it was then. I suggested that it nugW
18
SEPTEMBER OCTOBER i 964
f me t0 make periodic reports to him.
rfb*** *®Lwas a grand idea,
it"•. | lC called back to the White House to
14 s i‘ 1 *SS «*“ lcr again ” <Be11 ’ p - 120)
^ ** P Scranton opposed his candidacy he
\Vh cn e has turned to attacking person-
‘'Wh er1 , , . a ] W ays thought he considered
* ’ — tn al . , 1-^. 4 .., r >.-,s r\ ....
his language become
address heWd SlT T tohibited - ln
;, I960, he said, “I fear Washington ,
an
Sept,
on and cen-
r ' A f e <*r Washingt
And'Gokr'r 6111 m ° re than 1 d0 Mos'cow ”
d Goldwater maintained that the noor
a ma 1 '
lly a 11 the old, Et tu, Brutus” (Der
ftiend^Q/64). And in 1963, when Rocke-
¥ egel ’ .H a statement attacking Goldwatefs
e lleris sue
— cuu maintained that the noor
acoust.cs of the 1960 Democratic Convent
were all Dart of a eleven, -- ,.j ...... ..
we,e all part of a cleverly concealed socialistic
apparatus that has taken over the Democratic
Party (AI ~-- n
more
c nator told interviewers: “Up to the
thei> ena . .- 4 .___ + t’^i u ......
lews. t ne his recen t statement
I . , T r^iict him 1
0 1 friends. I trust him, I like him, and
‘Wet . II O/>r\nrt Q/O/A'^'l
aid.
wr/5 News & World Report, 9/2/63).
t on’ ’ 1 u ' ■ delegate on the Republican
l " d Whe Committee, George A. Parker, asked
* - How could he
“Swa logicalqf
-- vuiwu uvu U1C uem
(New Republic, 3/27/61) and,
recently, he said, . . the Democratic Party
candidates are dedicated to the destruction of
Id have | this country” (Look, AHUM). He once said
Truman was on the way to socialistic ideas
(1955 Senate speech) and, after Nixon lost the
1960 election, Goldwater accused Johnson of
helping to falsify the Texas vote:
12 ^ t ously enforce the civil-rights bill when
^thought it was unconstitutional?—Senator
loldwater replied.
"‘You can’t discount Johnson in this thing. With
the tactics he used, we don't know whether we lost Texas
or not. I don’t think we did, I think Texas might have
been stolen, frankly.” (Bell, p. 133)
wsir w hen you use that argument you are ques-
X my honesty and I should resent it but I won't ...
Humid like to say that I’m not quest.onmg your m-
And when Johnson was jostled and spat upon
by a Dallas mob during the 1960 campaign,
Goldwater
gntv.
.Well you are, sir. #
I request vour frankness in answer.ng my question .
„ You are questioning my integrity but I'll overlook it.
fimes. 7/11/64)
was convinced that Johnson recognized the situation as
potentially helpful politically and seized the opportunity
to make some hay with it.... “In his very clever way,
Johnson had a hand in the size of the demonstration,
And, sounding like a Communist ranting
ik. -V .j-M- —r A
once he saw the opportunities.” (Bell, p. 133)
;ainst Wall Street, he explained the sinister
-hi * _ * j— JA
mx behind his Republican opponents:
tell, I know the very widely held theory—and I have
ver heard it disputed in my life—that the Eastern money
terests—the large banks, the financial houses have
flost always been able to control the selection of the
-publican candidate. They want to be able to conti ol
the foreign policy as you and I think of foreign pol
|> based on peace and war; but the foreign policy of
I s country relative to interest rates, gold balances, val
s ' c k. And in my case they don’t have this conti ol anc
ar e getting quite frantic in their efforts to have some-
Goldwater was only being in character when he
called Johnson “the biggest faker ir: he Unm*
States” and
came around” (Times, 7/16/64), and then, a
came arouiiu v „a- «t accure vou
few hours lu.«. pious,, "
* ” ot sr p „rr 2£ Hr ^
paign wag^ >
1/11 { 6 V’v Kennedy also came in for a good
John F. Kennedy , {ear for
juiiu i • —- i( T sincerely fear for
deal of Goldwater s • Kenne dy should
__ ” said he, it Jacic ^ _ 1nt »iv
ijimc irunuc 111 uicu - - g _
5 S e t me out.” (Der Spiegel, 6/30/64, and reprinted
^N.Y. Times, 7/9/64)
my country,” stadl le, - absolute i y
elected Pres.den • Jianapolis S m,
be
wonder he once said, “Sometimes
•4‘ ihiP"
I
ants or principles
no g uxs u
6/10/60). And
(indianapoli:
country would be better off if we
j i Ust saw off the Eastern Seaboard and let
° w°u Utt0sea ” (Chicago Tribune, 9/30/61 )•
_ en the “conspiracy” against him and is
ers originates in the Democratic party.
it
Kenn
man could. 1 " e or some of the
from it, but ei can didate h.mst Jr<]
fr ° m 'L and not the ^ Ken „edy, Jr-
Kennedj !:r h ow their brother [Josep
talking about hoiv then
19
was a Catholic and he fought and died for country
and his blood was the same color as anyone else s. (BUI,
p. 134)
(President Kennedy, incidentally, seems to have
had a clear picture of Goldwater's all-round
assets. Once when Goldwater was droning away
and Kennedy—a Senator at the time was pre¬
siding over the Senate, Kennedy sent him this
note: “Do you always have to be such an ass?”
[Bell, p. 143].)
Goldwater’s proneness to engage in public
name-calling fits into the mold of a paranoiac
who tends to see issues in terms of people. The
term used for this phenomenon is personaliza¬
tion, defined by T. W. Adorno in The Authori¬
tarian Personality as “the tendency to describe
objective social and economic processes, politi¬
cal programs, internal and external tensions in
terms of some person identified with li e case in
question rather than taking the trouble to per¬
form the impersonal intellectual operations re¬
quired by the abstractness of the social processes
themselves/' In Goldwater’s case, personaliza¬
tion is seen most clearly when the Senator be¬
gins thundering against labor unions.
* * *
In Goldwater’s mind, the evil genius who hovers
over the labor movement in America is Walter
Reuther, a man who Goldwater has said “is
more dangerous to America than the Sputniks,
or anything Russia might do,” whom he has
called a “national menace” (McDowell, p. 123)
and “the most dangerous man in America”
(Pageant , 12/59), and a man whom, on the
Senate floor and under a cloak of immunity, he
has called a liar (S.E.P., 6/7/58). Says Gold-
water: “I would rather have Jimmy Hoff a steal¬
ing money than Walter Reuther stealing my
freedom” (Wood & Smith, p. 99). At the 1957
convention of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
he “blistered Reuther by name no less than 44
times” ( Pageant , 12/59). Six years ago, Gold-
water had already amassed a 254-page file on
Reuther, and
The Senator flips through it, reading Reutherisms at ran¬
dom, whenever he wants to be stimulated. (S.E P
6/7/58)
To most observers, of course, Reuther is honest
capable, sincere, and anti-Communist. And
v V* ' —--/
might add that Reuther a* so seems rather per .
ceptive, for he was once quoted as saying
“Goldwater is mentally unbalanced—he needs
a psychiatrist” (Wood & Smith, p. 99).
Many people around Goldwater think he
needs a psychiatrist—probably not because they
realize how sick he is—but because of the daily
symptoms of hostility he manifests. In June,
1959, when the Senate voted against confirm¬
ing Lewis Strauss as Secretary of Commerce,
“Goldwater, fists clenched, rushed up angrily
to a Senator who had voted against Strauss. But
before an actual fight started, he caught hold
of himself and stalked out” ( Pageant , 12/59)
Drew Pearson has noted that Goldwater is
irritable that on at least three occasions the
microphones picked up his profanity (5/20/
64).
He battles often and in Soud tones with his flinty secre¬
tary, Mrs. Edna Coerver, prompting her to say, “Some
sweet young thing without my tough hide wouldn t last
one day with him, and she’d be in tears six times before
she left.” He can blister the ears of his staff with com¬
plaints. (N.Y. Post, 6/15/64)
SO
“Goldwater is probably the only politician of
his day who can get angry because an unsched¬
uled, spontaneous group shows up to cheer him”
(S.E.P., 8/8/64). Time magazine, on May 15,
1964—this was before Mrs. Luce threw her
weight around — described half-a-dozen inci¬
dents showing how “The hard campaign for the
Republican nomination is getting on his nerves.”
On a recent trip to Atlanta, Goldwater stepped from
his plane, strode wordlessly through a cheering crowd.
A radio reporter popped up with a microphone, asked:
“How was the trip, Senator?” Goldwater just scowled.
An admiring girl tried to clap a big white hat on his head.
Goldwater shoved it away, snapping: “I don’t want that.”
The radio reporter tried again. Goldwater spoke a few
words, but the reporter wanted more. Goldwater pushed
the mike away and growled: “Get that damn thing out
of here”.... I
At the Sacramento airport late one night, Gold-
water was greeted by about 100 boosters chanting j
“We want Barry.” Goldwater turned to California
Campaign Manager Bill Knowland and said angrily:
not going to get off this pane until vou get those peopk
v - irm~n here.” And again, in home town Phoenix
1 cMBhR- October. 1%4
, w |ien a few newsmen and a dozen or
..as »» n ° yC l5nfl youngsters met him at the airport.
ever hap-
The
ft V . *
pe» ag8 te( j one of Goldwater's aides as
Q U , - U^A r, U^4- *_
strong” and i n no uncertain ^ awK iney are
Preference for them ovo/ , ^ asserts his
. . lueni over civi mno m..
pe e ! e y u know, he always had a hot temper,
spying-. t0 joke about the day he’d punch
il. ~ tVl /-V1 1 + Vi T O t m O -fzill tla-va.
coine
. k in the mouth. Let me tell you
■n st month or so it’s ceased to be
lfl a f«*i<anrlc Wf^ll ac Vlic qiHpc
1 say fear the civilians
say fear military men
already^'been IZST?** "“■« °™” ^
ilar opinions - m ° ng mmy 0,her sim '
that in ,A ^water’s friends as well as his aides.
• . • “Hp Vine a 1 nYU Hrtiltncr
a jok e
about his temper.
its imn^T- 3 ?“"■ ° ne is most sheering in
'LZ « ‘ m “ lt ,'° ,he s,ren 6th ot his own
is as well as his aides country “ w T- ™* lu ™ nis own
He hns a low hoilina u * no * Germany in both wars
H J . * b ?J ng been objected to the supreme command nf m .n
poiflh
says his biographer Shadegg (p. 104).
fold water friend, Harry Rosgnzweig, a
Aa# jeweler, says, “This fellow has a ten-
Ph ° en t aet irritated and blow his top
denCy § „ i fripnd Plpanr
( G.H.,
{ .,,s Mrs Goldwater’s friend, Eleanor Libby,
' ‘‘He’s a moody person. He scares everyone
H6 - ” (G.H., 5/64). As
supreme command of men
or a man who didn’t understand wars I think
Germ : wou d have won both of them” (Der
Spiegel, 6/30/63). But with the exception of
the military no one can be trusted, and when
m
. J __ j Ml ■ it A
-
1 erica’s foreign enemies, the de-
1 * n
says
in
the family except Peggy
{ Peggy herself, asked about his temper, she
much better than he used to be. But
O - ^ w
lusions of conspiracy and persecution are com¬
plete: From “Our government was originally
1 1 « . 1 * , , 4 * *
pushed into suspending tests by Communist-in-
I’ll admit he still flies off the handle once in a fa]lout -> ( The Conscience of a Conservative, p.
f /* A \ ,r ~ 1 U ^ n i * « /> n f T* 1 1 O / i 1 1 f _ __ . w. *
while” { G.H. , 5/64). These uncontrolled out-
duced hysteria on the subject of radio-active
113) to “The people the Kremlin sends over
bursts are, of course, symptoms of pent-up j ^ are tQ a man? tra i ne d agent s of Soviet pol-
aggression. But only recently, when during the
convention in San Francisco—for the first time
icy" ( Conscience, p. 107). (Senator Fulbright,
in American history—armed guards were
posted around a non-incumbent Presidential
has applauded the Senator on this point for
candidate (even before he was nominated) did
“awakening the nation to the menace o^prem
young Russians in dancing shoes” [Tunes,
his aides begin to realize how paranoid he was.
The mystery surrounding his movements, the
rude, rough strictness of his bodyguards, and
the general atmosphere around “the leader re¬
minded many European reporters of Germany
in the 1930s.
8/16/64].)
*
*
*
Rnt nerhaps the most revealing uueran^
try P o£-
ruatic of his paralyzing, whx Not
This paranoia is expressed in man\ m n i
but significant habits which reflect his general
distrust of people around him. “Goldw'ater is not
^ man ^ho can work easily with men whom he
tt ^ s not know intimately” t Times , 8/1/64).
Barr Y does not like to deal with people he
es not know,’ remarks one of the people ^e
wit,,.. (Perry p . U 9). “Mr. GoMj
knrv j ^ es men ar ound him he has known,
So °' Vn a long time. Mr. Goldwater even wen
t 0 u . 1 it came to pick a Bell System man
bis communications, to insist on t ©
(Pern lllent op an °id friend from Ai izona
6rry ’P. 14).
t nis paiai^-©> * wh Not
fear, is the following paragraph mm .
Victory 1 ?, pp. 79-80:
l- o about the current efforts o
Often, in speaking disarmament dis-
Khrushchev to < ;" t,ce t0 a giant of a man, maybe
cussions, Ihaveli enc . 27S pounds, trim an
six feet ten inches «»V" e * * of his hand could
hard as nails, who wi „ p ut this g ian * ne>e ^
lr me “hors de combat. » ^ a pistol
h ihcred me because I had y „ alize r” if he made
.i ch be > » 7 “ z u t. "T' £ “
SSSS’-'S*-
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FACT
As a psychoanalyst friend of mine put it,
that’s not Big Daddy coming to castrate Gold-
water, I’ll vote for the guy.”
This infantile fantasy in which, wishfu y ,
the fact that Russia also possesses a pistol (tie
Bomb) is completely ignored is one of the most
stunning examples of Goldwater’s lack of con¬
tact with reality. But it is by no means the only
one. He can say “The Russian people, we may
safely assume, are basically on our side . . .
(< Conscience , p. 107). And recently, in an inter¬
view with television reporter Howard K. Smit ,
Goldwater said: “We don’t know why the poor
are unemployed. The pressing need is for a study
of why some people just don’t want to work . . .
As the interview proceeded, it became cleai to
one and all that Mr. Smith “was referring to the
unemployment of today, while to the Senatoi
there flashes the image of loafers around a sunny
courthouse square, in a turn-of-the-century Aii-
zona town” (Arthur Frommer in his excellent
compilation ol the Senator s public statements
Goldwater from A to Z, p. 14). As Frommer
puts it,
When one reads the Senator’s repeated suggestion
that programs to alleviate suffering and insecurity be
attempted first by charities; then, if they fail, by local
communities; then by states; and only in a last resort by
the federal government, one asks where he has been for
the last 50 years? Is this not precisely the evolution these
programs have traveled, until it was realized that certain
problems demanded a national solution?
It is his paranoid divorce from reality that
is the most dangerous facet of Goldwater’s per¬
sonality. It enables him to say,
We have in the nuclear bomb an advance in weap¬
onry, and terrible though that advance is, it still is merely
a more efficient means of destruction. In a historical and
relative sense, it can be compared with the advance made
in military operations by the invention and adaptation of
gunpowder to war-making and the development of aerial
warfare and strategic bombing missions. ( Why IS at Vic¬
tory?j pp. 83-4)
He is convinced that "The basic problems
are no di ferent in our time than under Lincoln
or Washington. We have merely changed the
horse for the tractor, the hand tools for a ma¬
chine” (1960 speech to the Utah Convention
of Junior Chambers of Commerce). He can re,
peatedly advocate withdrawing recognition
from Russia (U.S. News and World Report,
9/2/63) and comment that theic is practically
no fallout from tests conducted above the earth’s 1
atmosphere” ( Conscience, p. 113). He can say
gan be no co-existing with the Commies
as long as they do not believe in God. It’s as
simple as that” (Chamber of Commerce dinner
in Kinston, N.C., 1/17/64) and ‘ Where frater¬
nities are not allowed, Communism flourishes”
(Speech, National Interfraternity Conferences,
L.A.. 11/25/60). He can say “Secretary Rusk
believes that starving people go Communist. It
isn’t true. The Communists that we have dis- !
closed in America have been in the main well-
to-do people. . . .” He can say “Our right of
property is probably our most sacred gift”
(ABC-TV, 4/7/63) and “The Government has i
no right to educate children. . . . The child has
no right to an education. In most cases, the chil¬
dren will get along very well without it" (Bell,
p. 60). He can say “The Supreme Court deci¬
sion is not necessarily the law of the land 1
(CBS, 3/8/62) and “The only summit meet¬
ing that can succeed is one that does not take
place" (Why Not Victory?, p. 45). And, finally,
he can say, “There is no such thing as peaceful
coexistence" (Times, 9/17/61), and “A c avert
fear of death is entering American conscious¬
ness” ( Conscience, p. 90), and "I am con¬
vinced, there will either be a war or we'll be sub¬
jugated without war . . . real nuclear war ... 1
don’t see how it can be avoided—perhaps five,
ten years from now" (N.Y. Post, 5/8/61).
* * 4 ?
In the context ol Barry Goldwater's personal¬
ity, this is not a call for an impossible victory,
nor even what Senator Fulbright sarcastically
termed ”a bold, courageous and determined
policy of co-annihilation.” It is a fantasy of a
final conflagration, the twilight of the gods, in
which he—and the whole hostile world—-will
heroically play out the last act of the Human
)rama. If it sounds like the death-fantasy of an¬
other paranoiac woven in Berchtesgaden and
realized in a Berlin bunker not long ago, it ^
no surprise.
What Psychiatrists
Say About Goldwat
By Warren Boroson
In a national poll by FACT, 1189 psychiattiste md J*.Republi^
candidate was not psychologically fit to be Pre , y 651
thought that he was
On July 24, one week after Barry Goldwater
received the Republican nomination, FAC. 1
sent a questionnaire to all of the nation s 12,356
psychiatrists asking, “Do you believe Bai ry
Goldwater is psychologically fit to serve as
President of the United States?” (The names
were supplied by the American Medical Asso¬
ciation.)
In all, 2417 psychiatrists responded. Of
these, 571 said they did not know enough about
Goldwater to answer the question; 657 said they
thought Goldwater was psychologically fit; and
1189 said that he was not. (It might be pointed
out that the majority of those who thought Gold-
water was psychologically fit nevertheless said
they were not voting for him.)
FACT’S questionnaire left room for “Com¬
ments” and over a quarter of a million words of
professional opinion were received. On the next
4 pages we present a sampling of these com¬
ments, which, all together, constitute the most
intensive character analysis ever made of a
living human being.
Senator Barry Goldwater gives the super¬
ficial appearance of solidity, stability, and
honesty. However, my impression is of a brittle,
rigid personality structure, based on a soft-
spoken continuous demand for power and au¬
thority and capable of either shattering like
crystal glass or bolstering itself by the assump-
tion of a paranoid stance and more power over
others. In his book, The Conscience of a Con¬
servative, his position is one of anachronistic
authoritarianism, using the Constitution in a
litigious way. ... He seems unaware that mod¬
ern nationwide transportation and communica¬
tion have increased identification of the popu¬
lace with the nation as a whole—rathe 1 than
the states—and that people generally desire
national standardization of law, welfare, and
education. ;
In allowing you to quote me, which I do,
1 rely on the protection of Goldwater's defeat
at the polls in November; for if Goldwater wins
the Presidency, both you and I will be among
the first into the concentration camps.
■ G. Templeton, Af.D-
Director, Community Hospital Mental Clinic
Glen Cove, NX
The main factors which make me feel
Goldwater is unfit to be President are:
(1) His impulsive, impetuous behavior.
:vueb behavior in this age could result in world
destruction. This behavior reflects an emotion¬
ally immature, unstable personality.
(2) His inability to dissociate himself
from vituperative, sick extremists. This either
reflects his desire for support from anyone or
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I have great faith that the American peo¬
ple will see through this man, especially since
I am sure he will continue to demonstrate his
impulsive, erratic, thoughtless behavior during
the campaign. . . . ,
Basically, I feel he has a narcissistic char¬
acter disorder with not too latent paranoid
ments. _, _
Carl B . Younger, M.D.
Los Angeles
I believe Goldwater has the same patho¬
logical make-up as Hitler, Castro, Stalin and
other known schizophrenic leaders. My reasons
for saying this are:
(1) Logical or scientific or truthful analy¬
sis of his statements is completely impossible.
His words are double-talk!
( 2 ) His statements and actions show dis¬
tinct persecution feelings. For example, when
Rockefeller repeated to the Republican Con¬
vention some of Goldwater s earlier remarks,
Goldwater had a picture of himself distributed
which showed an arrow in his back.
My dedication against Goldwater as Presi¬
dent is founded in the sincere belief that he is
a dangerous so-called compensated schizo¬
phrenic.
Chester W. Johnson, Jr., M.D.
Long Beach, Calif,
It is not likely that Senator Goldwater is
catering to extremist and backlash groups
merely for the sake oJ his political future.
More likely he feels genuinely a part of these
frustrated and malcontented ^conservatives * 1 2 '
I hey 'effect his own paranoid and omnipotent
tendencies. As a leader, he seems to hold him¬
self above causality and the consequences of
his behavior. He projects his failures onto the
public, as was characteristic of dictators in the
30s and ’40s. All these men were incapable of
searching their inner consciences and seeking
within themselves a cause for fail Ure .
wrong is inconceivable to such men.
For Americans, Senator Goldwater
represent a reversal of our progressive p 3j
and our optimistic openhandedness which M
made our country the hope and leader 0{ 1
new nations and oppressed groups. M
I hesitate to make a man’s private jj* I
topic of political discussion. But in the ca^'
a man whose executive powers are questioiJ
as a result of his personality disability, th et| ,
think we must speak out for the good ofJ
nation. It is not only our enemies who ^
suffer, but, perhaps to a greater degree our 0 v,
people and our own country. ,
A If red Berl, Afj)
New y 0 ,j
Gentlemen, I have a bumper sticker on my
car which reads Remember Munich. r ra
scared and I'm fighting like hell against this
damned fool. Remember this about Goldwater-
supporters: Strategy against the paranoid fringe
must be very carefully worked out. A frontal
attack on paranoids causes them to band to¬
gether and become more efficient. I
[ Name Withheld |, M.D.
Berkeley, Calif.
Mr- (
that the e
authority,
the feelir
“roughshi
exempt
and his a
contents,
minded
render t
Afi
At this particular time, on the basis of
reading some o' Senator Goldwater's writings
and hearing only a few talks, I am rather im¬
pressed with what appears to be a genuine
candor, lack of guile, and lack of malevolence.
Richard L. Shriner, M-fi-
South Bend,
That this megalomaniac [Goldwater] has
gained such a tremendous following from
amongst cranks, crackpots, seekers of easy an- j
swers, racially bigoted and destructive elements i
of the South and West, merely tells me of the
all-pervasiveness of irrationality and seemingly
impossible task of elevating and maintaining our
society. Perhaps if these elements are given a
rii chance to ventilate their know-nothingness
and nuttiness, in the long run we can expect
to find the basic good sense of the American
people coming through at election time, as it
ize crov
Heil, Bi
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ft M.D.
y, Calif.
isis of
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n tings
er im-
muine
ha s bef0 ',‘''say let Goldwater talk freely and
S ° • self” by his own words - This is the
£ hl )beit Il10r e frightening, course to take.
s iinpl est, oineS open i y visible that Goldwater is
If i 1 beL ( j(j (hen more specific steps can be
nient r t now when he seems to have aroused
taken- “ supp ort from patently radical-
c0,:S1 . 6 S we can only sit tight and let the para-
M fires burn themselves out. We can only
Tnd by with buckets of sand, and courage in
ir convictions.
0 We have dealt with persons inflamed by
fantasies of world domination before.
[Name Withheld], M.D.
Chicago
Mr. Goldwater’s now popularized remarks
that the end justifies the means, his flouting of
authority, lack of respect or consideration for
the feelings of others, his tendency to run
“roughshod” over those he has vanquished (as
exemplified by his conduct at the convention),
and his ability to attract and mobilize the mal¬
contents, the esoteric elements and the “caste”-
minded groups of the population all these
render him dangerous .
After his acceptance speech I could visual¬
ize crowds with upraised arms shouting, “Sieg
Heil, Barry!”
H. Dublin, M.D.
Chicago
Mr. Goldwater seems to need a _
definite, authoritarian, black-or-white answer
1 comfort. The tendency to portray
people as either “good” or “bad” makes both
for poor literature and poor government.
I' 1 niy opinion, the personality weakness
that forces Goldwater to extreme opinions
would make him a dangerous President. I am
liity years old. I have never before felt endan¬
gered by a Presidential candidate.
Harrington V. Ingham, M.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, U.C.L.A.
Los A ngeles
I think Goldwater has a paranoid person¬
ality which shows itself by marked rigidity, a
tendency to project blame, fear of internal im¬
pulses breaking out and inherent contradictions
in almost all of his statements. . . .
I feel he is dangerous because, though
compensated at present, he could—and prob¬
ably will—become more irrational and paranoid
when under political attack during the cam¬
paign. He is very much like Senator McCarthy.
Alan M. Levy, M.D.
New York
. My mother-in-law's ranch is 20 miles
from Johnson City, so I’ve had some intimate
glimpses of Johnson and have the lowest regard
for him. ... I am for Goldwater.
James Alexander, M.D.
Chicago
The public speeches and statements of
Senator Goldwater suggest to me excessive
aggressiveness in a dangerous nuclear context.
Some aggression is normal. Some aggression is
psychopathic.
I suggest that a blue-ribbon panel of dis¬
tinguished psychiatrists and psychologists from
all parts of the country, not affiliated with gov¬
ernment or identified with partisan politics, be
convened to give the public an authoritative
statement on the basis of all available data.
Prince P. Barker, M.D.
New York
It is my feeling that Senator Goldwater
appeals to the unconscious sadism and hostility
in the average human being. He appeals to all
of the delinquent tendencies in the citizens of
the United States: bigotry, hatred, doing away
with the income tax, etc. Hitler used the same
psychological advantage with the German peo¬
ple. He gave them the right to indulge in their
own sadistic tendencies.
Paul J. Fink, M.D.
Philadelphia
I wish to congratulate you for your wisdom
and excellent journalism in polling psychiatrists
regarding Goldwater’s fitness for office.
It is my finn opinion that Senator Barry
Goldwater is utterly unfit to be President of
me United States, and we must not grant him
control over atomic warfare with its possible
extermination of mankind. There are two
sep.
irate and unequivocal reasons for this opinj 0B
:ach of which, by itself, would cause his election
o be playing Russian roulette with all of the
ruman race. Together they add up to what must
)e described as a drive toward species-suicide
. • f f -
In the first place, his two “nervous break-
lowns” absolutely disqualify him for that office.
or these have a marked tendency to recur even
ifter the elapse of decades. A delusional, para-
-w « t -4 4
ioid President (a type accurately depicted by
_ * * ♦
mother Air Force general in the movie Dr.
Urangelove ) constitutes a dire menace to the
survival of the human race.
In the second place, Goldwater suffers
- * 1 *
: rom a kind of social and political infantilism
T
n his complete failure to grasp the economic
* 1 T\ i Air
ind political realities of the modern world. Phy
ng
a
cops and robbers'' may seem like fun to
he John Birchers and reactionaries who sup
i
)ort him, but to put at the helm of our nation
i bespectacled, grey-haifed man with the soci
comprehension of a four-year-old who solv^
” at the bad
:hild of
ill problems by going u bang bang
;uys) is as dangerous as putting a c
hat age at the controls of a jet airliner.
career^
bloom’
Tv
In brief, there exists an ominous dan?
fliecha
persor
hat the chemical formula used to
joldwater’s campaign would be comply
ollows: AuH>0 + (E=mc 2 )*> obliteration*
by stt
his ca
dividi
to de J
ings
Leonard R ■
for
the
depr
wat
ha\
are
am
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ter is I1 °* : psychologically fit to serve
(30 ,{|vva j am very much in favor of voca-
presi den *' ilita tion for mentally unstable peo-
ial reh tertain vocations should be exempt.
• off of nervOUS breakdowns > strokes,
(yith a h ‘ st ° ^ ra jn damage, nobody should have
o^the Presi dency '
, c eSS t0 1 ■ Sturner, M.D.
Baltimore
(out
,S much in Mr. Goldwater's public
f ud) thinking that is reminiscent of para-
but
without more details of his personal
no.a ; "“^possible to make this diagnosis. But
life 11 ib , - t have been impossible to make this
U of Hitler and Stalin before their
■ Hr " r / an( j their illnesses) came into full
so
IVO
career
bl °°Mv best guess as to the man's mental
echanisms is that he inwardly is a frightened
on who sees himself as weak and threatened
bv strong virile power around him—and that
m
his call for aggressiveness and the need for in¬
strength and prerogatives is an attempt
to defend himself against and to deny his feel¬
ings of weakness and danger.
In practical and political terms, his call
for "individual liberty” means the liberty for
the strong to oppress the weak and for the
deprived to remain deprived.
Eugene V. Resnick , M.D.
Pa ramus, NJ.
If most psychiatrists do not prefer Gold-
ter, it is certainly no surprise. Psychiatrists
.. - * f* _ __
a strong tendency to be '"do-gooders and
^ i o ■_T
unstable, callous v
breakdowns should b“°T !? s 8 ', ° f his ""™»
the vv ow of™^ U - He ^Peals
t0 the worst 0{ our Py peo r p t Ck H 0f h - He appeals
m ° St President we\e
Margarettu K. Bowers. M.D.
Rework, NJ,
chnlriaw‘ nk u He names of P^chiatrists and psv-
lie so W, Should be made pub-
lir cn^uiu ue maae pub-
he so we can see which ones use crystal balis
Anonymous
Maccleeny , Fla,
Goldwater’s appeal to emotion (to the
exclusion of reason), wildly inconsistent state
— _ j • _ *
merits on vital issues, impulsive outbursts and
history of two nervous breakdowns make me
doubt seriously his mental stability. The fact
that he has failed in most of his ventures into
the academic world and only succeeded when
he stepped into the family business leads me to
question his intellectual ability to coordinate
and comprehend the infinite complexities of
the American Presidency.
. . . The most frightening aspect of the
Presidential responsibility is that of the ability
to initiate nuclear war. We can survive almost
all other mistakes that an unstable President
minht make but this is what really causes me
to be concerned about Goldwater s stability.
Bertrand L. New , M.D
Medical Director, Brooklyn PsyeUairic^Cento*
Goldwater’s expressed wish that he go to
the Berchtesgaden region, Hitler’s oW resj^
oftpr niQ campaign is enough to
« tu uv ^ -- Berchtesgaden region, --
therefore more politically liberal. Since I regt a f ter his campaign is enough to
* practicing psychiatrist I feel free to criti- P ace> mc his strong identification with the
HIV Drofpccinn Amrmo 1V1 O 5s. we are the conv .. , Hitler, if not identification
vwucmg psycniatrist l ieei ^ - mg of his strong lucmmw—
my profession. Among MD’s, we are the C , itarianism 0 f Hitler, if not identification
psychologically disturbed of the group. Hitler himself, and all that this imp its.
is what motivates us to be interested m Ruth Adams, M.D.
People’s problems.
r piUUiCiUS.
Compared to Harry Truman and John I -__- PTS i^Jounterpart in Mc-
ned y. Barry Goldwater is a psychologica Goldwater a ^ destructive paranoid
3 e rman” i n my opinion. Carthy, who ^f S a ^ as t he same wealthy
Ruth Adams, M.D
New York
William R- R eul > %
Tulsa, Okla.
* arr y Goldwater is a verv dangerous man
Carthy, who was av y ^ ^ wealthy
alcoholic. Goldwa reactionary follower s as
backers andjhe sa^ , mpulsive people
\V
for whom there are only ” gbt f .^nuestions are
for whom tnere ~ questions are
need simple answers when often q at
need simple answer —• answers at
complicated. Sometime; there are n
all. but in their rigidity these peop
nervous
Goldwater’s two
breakdowns." this is a term that can mean
anything or nothing. I ass™' the - ^
«tZL versos suicide.
The psychosis is the solution to the pi oblen ,
the best solution the individual can find. With¬
out treatment the individual recovers, but
still has intense internal rage with which he
must forever struggle. Without good treatment
he will always be vulnerable to psychosis be¬
cause of this internal conflict. From his behavior.
I would think that Goldwater had little or no
treatment and is still struggling with his con¬
flict. . . . People like Goldwater are scared and
XI 3 - V Irt * * * * w w r
more interested in magic and rationalizing 01
_. m m
mm 1 __
blaming others for their difficulties. For this
purpose the Communists, Jews, Catholics, and
Negroes come in handy
No, I don’t think Goldwater is psychologi¬
cally fit to be President.
Norman Rintz, M.D.
Associate Psychiatrist, George Washington Univ.
Washington, D.C.
I am highly fearful of Senator Goldwater’s
casually precipitating us into an all-out atomic
war. His public utterances strongly suggest the
megalomania of a paranoid personality. He ex¬
hibits a rigidity and sense of self-righteousness
which brook no interference; he does not seem
willing to listen to any counsel but his own.
This man is as dangerous as a time-bomb with
a short fuse.
Randolph Leigh, Jr., M.D.
Cincinnati
Although sincere and dedicated in his be¬
liefs, Mr. Goldwater sounds to me as though
his thinking is distorted and that he is just as
emotionally disturbed as the late Senator Joseph
McCarthy.
Dan F. Keeney, M.D.
Washington, D.C,
Your survey is an offensive attack 0 , _
Senator who is a legitimately nom.naw ^
drills P l
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dential candidate. It is an open smear^ tactic
I am angry that you attempt to involve
can psychiatrists in such a cheap and psychi^
#*; h ifl1
tHa
“e* tr «o*’ e
cally-unsound maneuver.
I am reporting my answer to Fulton Le%j s
)0°}
in
die 2
Jr., who, as you know, is keeping a file on y 0llt
#
smear campaign
Eleanor Crissey y frj *
New Y 0rk
p S l believe Barry Goldwater most assuredly
is psychologically fit to serve as President
of
the United States.
Barry Goldwater’s proneness to aggressive
behavior and destructiveness indicates an at¬
tempt to prove manliness. In other words, he
places a lot of stock in “standing up to" people
and issues. Thus, he appears to be unskilled in
ihe methods of compromise that are necessary
to survival in an age of differences. His behavior
would tend to provoke an enemy rather than
pacify him. . . .
Goldwater exhibits behavior which has a
schizophrenic quality. For instance, he can
call the President a “phony” with considerable
feeling and conviction and yet agree to see him
a few days later face to face! I personally can
_ ^ *
not shrug this off as mere politics. I believe it
points up defects of the character in the man as
well as a diseased ability to communicate.
Peter G. Angelos, M.D.
Washington , D.C.
£
Goldwater s insecurity and feelings of in¬
adequacy cause him to reject all changes and
to resent what he considers excessive power by
the Federal government. His rejection may, in
T »».***** v • i * 4. JL Jl U A W I V V
fact, reflect a threat by a father-image, namely
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P sy f d S tates
p
He is r
erS0 Tot to tl
to ada ? e to '
subS f l visi° n!
off” b >' th
2
\ have
40-plus
I knov
except his \.
considered.
sufficient tc
as a
dence of ot
ment of ou
someone who is stronger than he is. more mas¬
culine and more cultured.
Diodato Villamena, M-D-
New York
I do not think Told water is sufficiently
stable to serve as President. His outbursts
m
against personalities
faker”
such as “Johnson is a
disclose deep feelings of inadequacy
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dealing with people who may disagree
"* en d His public pronouncement regarding
^ ism” (which to me means the use of
^nv/er than is required to do a particular
n\V€Y l riun ^^--** yur liqueur
0° re P . Q indicates a high degree of irresponsi-
Hyman S. Rubinstein, M.D.
Baltimore
-? ■* ■*?« »
carefully weiph^H / ngniest words are
even if y u gh d ever ywhere. Rash threats
by a p I * * * S r . eqUemly modified or re tracted, matte
amnno >wu * • ' s^auy neignten anxiety
u K*r 7 uiereoy increasing
t P , a 1 of errors of judgment and rash
at could start a nuclear holocaust.
r not only believe Barry Goldwater is
chologically fit to serve as President of the
P Mted States, but 1 believe he is a very mature
1 "son He is mature enough to be a realist, and
P e a( j a p t to the world as it is, and does not
Ascribe to the illusions (and/or delusions)
of the visionary “one-worlders.” He also has
integrity, and I do not feel he can be “bought
off” by the large money interests.
Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Baltimore
B,G. is in my opinion emotionally un¬
stable, immature, volatile, unpredictable, hos-
tile, and mentally unbalanced. He is totally
unfit for public office and a menace to society.
Renat us Hartogs, M.D.
Medical Director, Community Guidance Service
New York
John Paul McKenney, M.D.
Napa State Hospital
Imola, Calif.
I have known Goldwater personally for
40-plus years. He is not out of touch with reality.
A no ny mo us
La Jolla, Calif.
I know nothing about Senator Goldwater
except his public utterances, but their often ill-
considered, impulsive quality is, in my mind,
sufficient to disqualify him from the Presidency.
Even as a candidate, they have shaken confi¬
dence of other nations in the stability and judg¬
ment of our society. The President is the world’s
Barry Goldwater’s mental instability stems
from the fact that his father was a Jew while
his mother was a Protestant. This ethnic and
cultural split accounts for his feelings of in¬
security and spiritual loneliness. He cannot feel
at home in either group. Aspiring to move in
country-club circles, he is forced to listen with¬
out protest to anti-Semitic jokes and allusions.
Unlike President Kennedy, who was fortified
by his complete identification with a group that
has existed for centuries and which is universal
(the Mystical Body of Christ), and unlike
President Eisenhower, or Governors Rocke¬
feller, Scranton, or Romney, Goldwater has
i u ^ These five men are (for lack
no spiritual horn . „ whonl Gold-
of a better word) tlu ^ _ this is
water would aspire to be. ’ , . • f rus .
impossible, Goldwater is frustrated and h s ft
,radon takes the form of unconscious hatr«
them and of everything they ^ f or M a
result he appeals to and caters to
the John Birchers and similar hate groups, even
while this distresses his Jewish conscience. lh
net result is that his thinking and emotions are
fragmented. He is given to gimmickry. His best
efforts consisted in designing and selling Antsy
Pants,” men’s shorts upon which he had
imprinted crawling red ants. These proved
popular to men who were sexually insecure an
to women who bought these underpants fot
husbands whom they unconsciously hated. Gold-
water understands unconscious hatred and in¬
security and understands it viscerally. By
shrewd organization os these unconscious
forces he brought about his nomination in San
Francisco. It remains to be seen whether this
neuroticism is prevalent enough to elect a Presi¬
dent of the United States.
\Name Withheld |, M.D.
Carmel, Calif ,
Your questionnaire cannot really be an¬
swered because whatever psychopathology
Goldwater may have is not that overt that one
can make a diagnosis by merely observing him
on TV or reading what he writes. . . .
Since “nervous breakdown” i s not
cific medical term, it leaves me, a psychL
wondering exactly what did happen to s e
Goldwater at that time.
In recent years the American
* 1 1 .
k
leilliuiu^w *-- •' —auf'
finesses of Presidents Eisenhower, Ke
. ,r i_— «-i A Viac taVpn th
llnesses ui * — —-I
ind Johnson and has taken these factors j3|
:onsideration in determining his choice «Jl
lolls. In like manner, I believe such inf 0r C
/UlIO. in - - ' ^ -*
ion should also be made available about s erii
or Goldwater’s illness(es). I am not request]!
lata about the most intimate details of his |]f
—anyone, no matter how central he may be j,
- * ^1 •
4 4 i
but it is reasonable, in my opinion, for us t0
ask for answers to the following questions
What was the exact nature of Goldwateh
“breakdowns”? Was he hospitalized, and if so,
was it voluntarily or by commitment? What
treatment did he receive? What has been the
course of his recovery?
Richard A. Gardner, M.D
New York
I have been a registered Republican since
I was able to vote, but I will not be able to
vote for Barry Goldwater. ... It is my profes¬
sional opinion that Goldwater is emotionally too
unstable to guide the destiny of this nation
because of his past history, background, and
ambivalent attitude.
3
I*
I am a psychiatrist for the Veterans Ad¬
ministration and I feel strongly that we owe
those who have given life and limb for our
country a vote against war.
James W. Howard , M.D.
New York
Goldwater is less temperamental, less vin-
\ dictive, more consistent, more pro-freedom and
pro-integration than Johnson ever was or could
! be. Can pro-Americanism, anti-Communism,
! and pro-individual freedom and initiative really
be as terrible as the communication media
\ would have us believe? Yes, I believe Gold-
water is psychologically fit to serve as President
of the United States.
Gordon C.G. Thomas, M.D.
Director, Committee on Alcoholism
Stamford, Conn.
I do not believe Barry Goldwater is psy-
ologically fit to serve as President of the
uted States. He seems unaware of some as-
; ts of reality, i.e., that the Russians have the
* * ^ ~ —a iiciiqIIv
dUU LI I cl t jLulUo
over-up for bigots. Also, Mr. Goldwater
impulsive and unable to tolerate frustta
'neamy, i.e., tnat tne rcussiuna ~
too, and that ‘‘states rights” are usually
k t" l « £ _ a Anldwater
and anxiety.
Robert J. Joseph, M-D-
Philadelphia
. Goldwater is impulsive ^ (news
this “shooting from the hip ) ■ s a
vid example I saw him on TV call President
>hnson the greatest faker and phoney.”
ioit y after, he said that in the campaign he
ould refrain from name calling.
2. He is immature, as shown by his being
poor winner. He stubbornly insisted on hav-
ig the platform his way, although he knew
lat a more generous attitude would have
voided splitting the G.O.P.
3. He is vindictive. In his acceptance
3eech he poured oil on the flames by making
le infamous statement regarding extremism
nd by denouncing all who did not follow his
hilosophy” as not having a place in the
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4. He is inconsiderate. By the unfortunate
>ice of his running mate he completed the
ination of all liberal and independent voters
o are not archconservatives.
5. He lacks compassion. His voting record
1 his speeches show evidence of lack of con-
n for the underprivileged.
trying to analyze Mr Goldwara ■' ^
,j or I am tempted to call him a frustrated
v ” Sure enough he was eulogized by an in-
cere orator as “the petidler's grandson and
himself has on occasion declared that he
h , fW ancestry. It is, however, abundantly
)U ° ° that he has never forgiven his father
ar to me that h h ^ mentions B aron
' bCinga WhJI the Senator from Arizona
tTfor is the antithesis of the traditional
.
• ctice of humility’
Jewish concepts of sociu J u . _ nnr j 0 i con-
0 f social and of co n
of moderation in speech and ac rtinularly the
cern for the
" in SPCeC f oTers particularly the
feelings of otners, p
f those who have personal motives for
1 in the White House not on the stI
n ._uttioal personahty like the
vanquished concepts, the Senator
In eschewing these co V his JeW _
subconsciously expresses is esp oused the
ish father. To add the final touch, P hate
cause of extremist groups wio Catho-
not only the Jews but also Negroes and Catho
him in the White nouac, mn on tne stre|
Genuine political personality like the tw 0
velts or Kennedy. The organization behi nd
—minds me very much of the work of G 0eb|
ithout whom Hitler probably would not ]
lies.
Such an immature, impulsive, inconsid ^
ate man poses a danger when given au o
over the welfare and the lives of millions
people and I do teel strongly that he is n
psychologically fit to serve as President.
Max Dahl, M.D.
Supervising Psychiatrist
Hudson River State Hospital
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
re
without
succeeded.
;eaeu. . * * i
In short, Goldwater seems to me a nar r
parochial person who should be left in Ari ?0 j
just as Hitler would have stayed a relati v 2
harmless public nuisance if he had not been
mntprl bv Prussian efficiency from Munich
harmless public nuisance u ne nad ]
promoted by Prussian efficiency from
to Berlin. Possibly Goldwater’s ambitions
temper are explained by the fact that i n hi
life he has suffered from S
temper are expiamtu uy me mei mat m hi s
private life he has suffered from the conse-
quences of a mixed religious background.
Gotthard Booth, M.D
New
It seems to me most revealing that Gold-
water was disturbed in his dreams about be¬
coming President by the assassination of Presi¬
dent Kennedy. I found his way of mentioning it
particularly interesting. Goldwater said, with
reference to running for President, that Mr.
Kennedy’s assassination “took the fun out of
it.” It takes a thoroughly self-absorbed man to
make such a callous remark on TV; it would
have been bad enough to have thought it pri-
vately. I am also under the impression that
Goldwater has become the Republican candi¬
date on the strength of the organizing talents
New York
It is an axiom that persons who make
exaggerated statements (remarks) become very
moderate when they have to assume the re¬
sponsibility o:i their decisions and performances.
Mr. Goldwater would probably be no
exception to the rule. m
Raymond F. Wafer, M.D.
Psychiatrist-in-Charge, Earle Johnson Sanatorium
Meridian, Miss.
I believe Mr. Goldwater is basically im¬
mature. . .
He has little understanding of him¬
self oi why he does the things he does. Because
of this, he
u
projects" or blames other people
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performance
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1 F. Wafer, Ml,
nson Sanatoria
Meridian, Miff
basically it
iding of I*
loes. Becane
other
stake is made, not being able to see
,„en a ^ had in the error. This blaming
tie P art : rr itate people or nations and often
others j an g ero us friction.
reSUltS feel that he does not tolerate stress in a
essary toa president. He reacts to stress
" ay Corning irritated, angry, and losing con-
by bl ; ( ; ,; no °had two nervous breakdowns defi-
tm\ H aVin - u “
* ° lv limits his tolerance of stress.
1 Mr Goldwater has a mysterious air about
which may indicate an emotional disorder.
him ,j s time we especially need a President with
fell warmth and maturity.
Edward J. Vogeler, M.D.
Camarillo, Calif.
^ J do not believe Barry Goldwater is psycho¬
logically fit to serve as President for the reason
that under new Government security regulations
n0 ma n with a history of two nervous break¬
downs could get security clearance. 1 might add
that anyone who believes it would be a good
idea to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam to
famous utterance on extremism. In the midst
oi this surge of emotion he appeared the calm
observer aware of the demands of the situation,
to which he responded with the mechanical
smile and the equally mechanical wave of the
hand.
This remoteness from a situation which
one would expect to engulf him is corroborated
by two items in the newspapers: 1 } that in the
midst of the hectic preparations for the conven¬
tion Mr. Goldwater was able to enjoy small
talk on his ham radio set, and 2) while the
actual floor fight was in progress, he spent the
time taking pictures of the San Francisco sky
line. Partisans oi the Senator may argue that
these activities merely reflected his confidence.
11 would appear, however, that to a person truly
involved in events so momentous to himself and
aware, as the Senator must have been, of the
vagaries of a situation as explosive as this con¬
vention, some degree of apprehension would
not have been inappropriate.
In the moment of victory he evinced
idea to use nuclear weapons m v icuiam ^ „
destroy the foliage would have difficulty getting neither compassion for the loser nor respect tor
past the discharge board of a good state hospital.
My position with the Government pi events
me from using my name.
A nonymous
Jackson, La.
I believe that Barry Goldwater s public
statements, when not distorted or misinter-
any opinion contrary to his own. Everything
had to fall on one side or the other of the
unwavering line dividing black from white,
right from wrong, good from evil. . . . One
could not shake the impression of the Messianic
pronouncement, “He who is not with me is
against me."
person with great respect for his country and
,o t li IV- .
—-, j t would appear that the rigidity he ex-
preted, indicate him to be a thoughtful, capable ^its j s necessary to exert control ovei the
^^^^^■^■^■■HB^H^MHMHimpulsiveness which is often his undoing and
which too frequently erupts despite his attempts
to subdue it. In these lapses from control he
tends to denigrate others, e.g., calling Johnson
- * __ i. 4-^ t»n
•is fellow man
William F. Wagenbach , Jr., M.D .
Amherst, Mass.
This reply to your questionnaire is a wholly
speculative exercise based only on observations
m ade at a distance too great for real validity.
One is struck by Senator Goldwater s bel¬
ligerent bearing, and the hard line of his mouth
^hich, even when relaxed in what appea rs
e a willed and controlled smile, changes his
as P e ct not at all because the eyes remain fixed
a *) d unsmiling. There is about the man an air
detachment which is unshaken even by the
gett of the ovation which greeted his now
In'faker”; he tends to give vent to destructive
‘ an d hostile impulses and tends to provoke others
to retaliation, e.g., attack Cuba, give ultimatums
to Russia, etc., because, it would appear the
Senator is the embodiment of “Right and all
opposition is “Wrong” and should accept
“Ri„ht” or be annihilated.
& I have no information about his previous
breakdowns and can make no cogent comment.
However, it would be reasonable to assume that
the stresses inherent in the office of the Presi-
FACT
gests paranoid tendencies in the candidate or
his advisers.
| Name Withheld j, M.D.
Santa Monica, Calif.
I do not think two nervous breakdowns, if
he had them, is against Goldwater's being
President. Such illnesses do not, of themselves,
alter judgment or insight or ability to reason.
R. B. Mershon, M.D.
Chief of Psychiatric Service,
Mobile General Hospital
Mobile, Ala.
What has been said about Mr. Goldwater’s
emotional state could be said about Mr. John¬
son’s. I think they are equally sane. One might
add that Johnson has sadistic tendencies. Did; t
he pick up his dogs by their ears?
A nonymous
Stockton, Calif.
Being a psychiatrist 1 feel renders me per¬
haps more sensitive to mental illness by infer¬
ence than can be considered fair to the object
of such intuition. However, the little I have
heard about and from Mr. Goldwater concerns
me. I feel he has large areas of personality that
are immature and not well enough integrated
to render him fit for the multiplex job of 1 resi¬
dent. I refer in particular to his judgment. I
feel he is often swayed by his emotions more
than by his reason.
Although I am a staunch Republican,
Goldwater’s nomination has brought me t
own political “moment of truth.” I plan to
for Johnson.
D.J. Bonmngton, M
Seattle
Goldwater reminds me of Forrestal who
ortunately, had no access to the button.
Anonymous
Galveston, Tex.
Politically, I heartily disapprove of Gold
water. In fact, I find him somewhat frightening.
Yet I do not feel I can honestly say he is psy
chologically unfit to serve as President
I
don’t believe emotional disorder in the past or
* A *
even the diagnosis of schizophrenia is prima-
. . . Abra-
facie evidence of unfitness to govern.
ham Lincoln was repeatedly subject to severe
depressions. It is conceivable to me that a com
pensated schizophrenic could be a brightly
creative administrator.
Joseph Schachter, M.D.
New York
ment.
My fear of his destructive acting-out is so
great that I am seriously considering moving to
another country should Goldwater be elected.
The prospect of his becoming President is
the
i.bonth
Mr-
naive at i
on the P
I believe Goldwater to be suffering from I t0 be. 1
he si
a chronic psychosis. It is usually in remission I one - s fe«
but he is maintaining a rather marginal adjust- I which sc
within I
at times
M
- etene
most frightening thing I’ve felt since the
the
A't> oin * A nonymous
New Orleans
j^ r Goldwater seems psychologically
naive at’thnes, e.g., when offended by a Negro
the platform Committee he said, in effect,
that be should be annoyed but he was not going
to be. This assumption that one can choose
one’s feelings may account for his ou bursts
which seem to reflect feelings he tries to deny
the fact that psychiatrists recognized Hitler’s
power drive as they now recognize Goldwater’s
is comparable. . . . Goldwater may for personal
gloi\ sacrifice the future of the world.
Emy A . Metzger, M.D.
New York
wnicn seem iu 1 cntti ;— j reaa maicaie to me um i mb mumci asaumw me
within himself that break through explosively mascu ii ne role in his family background. My
at times. iirmression was that she was domineering and
To me Senator Goldwater appears an
angry, frightened, intemperate man, whose
speeches and public remarks have sadistic over¬
tones. Descriptions of his early life that I have
read indicate to me that his mother assumed the
_ i: _ i*, "Uio f om i 1 \r har L orrm lnd lVIv
Calvin S. Drayer, M.D.
Philadelphia
impression was that she was domineering and
considerably lacking in her ability to provide
affection and interest in her children. The pic-
. ^ npprinemasculat-
______ anecuon miu — — - -
-] turn therefore is of a domineering, emasculat
Mr. Goldwater’s emotionalism and con- . nB ’ her J a somewhat withdrawn, passive
if li, uumwau/i a
creteness have an appeal to the primitive in¬
stinctual feelings which are generally sup¬
posed. One danger is that he, as a national
leader, gives a legitimacy to these destructive
^Ises and thereby encourages their expres-
, by others. History is filled with unstable
e K ader s like Mr. Goldwater who for a time are
J ^ Mobilize the primitive hate and desti uc
that resides in some form in all human
bei ng$.
\Narne Withheld \,
Washington, D.^-
^ i ^°l^water reminds me in his psychological
e U P an d political success of Hitler. 1 W1
Hitler’s early rise with anxiety. • * Even
ture, uieiciuic, •
ing mother and a somewhat withdrawn passiv ,
narcissistic father. It would appear that Bay
had a stronger identification with his mother
than with his ta • histic tempera-
tile background tasado^ staKs .
ment, such as j s tempera-
My co n dus,o„ ,» .ha. *.s ™ (te respon ..
mentally unsuited to ca y d of his
bilit.es ot .he ,ni impulsive
S" 'constan. siaie of iension and
apprehension. [Name WMjgW£f a \
-- fh , t Goldwater’s so-called
It is my opinion that Go
•• was a stress "“‘““will-
-„«««s break**" « ne „ who»« ^
is r«her <*«" £ J e respo"^ unlie r
have symptoms of an. choso matm tea
insomnia, and many » y
tions. . • • hfis hish ideals bu
Barry Goldwater sure has com-
the same time is realistic. He wan ts tc
lively order their use in a crisis? .
pU usual for a potential murderer to ask '
U ped before he commits the cri me k !
P \Na meWith
N 1 ’
sto
Cl11
the same time is realistic. He wa nts to
passion for the poor an ever yone has
create a climate in America for se lf-
Goldwater seems to be able to ^ .
himself that he believes we can 1
ilu , i ” Fve.rv nonself-
go back ^
create a climate in for self-
an opportunity to wor throug h indi-
respect, and to wor pnte mrise whenever
S iiVve and private enterprise whenever
P0SS Tb=hnve that Barry Goldwarer (ito
himselt tnai nv o- to (
nood old days." Every nonself-deluden •<
wisdom knows that you cannot go bac( >1
nation any more than an adult can 8 „ ^
and relive his childhood except in fam,
in mental illness.
I believe tnai Dnnj — not
peace-loving people) opposes war.
seem aggressive or callous.
I believe he will take a firm stand and lie w
m fa »ta Sy „
lm C r Ni 'h°k M. c
Coronado,
My major concern re Goldwater i S
* 4
never sell out to the Communists.
I hold Mr. Goldwater in high esteem.
ivj .y j
suicidal is he? And will his suicidal techni qttt
be to kill just himself or, like many suicides, to
take others along—like maybe the
world?!
Carl F. Vernlund, M.D.
Hartford , Conn .
lit
I’m sufficiently concerned about the dan¬
ger this man poses to consider the possibility—
so far just in the fantasy stage—of leaving the
t jHfe -4
The possibility of inappropriate aggres¬
sive behavior in a potential President is fright¬
ening. In Senator Goldwater the balance be-
country for New Zealand if he’s elected.
tween impulse and control appears a tenuous
one. Could it be that Senator Goldwater’s wish
[Name Withheld], M.D
Bala Cynwyd,h
This type of questioning to evaluate some'
one’s psychological fitness by what he says for
to share responsibility for the use of nuclear
weapons is related to his fear that he may im-
political speeches is sick. This method was at¬
tempted in General Walker’s case and has al¬
lowed psychologists and psychiatrists to p
unres<
sexua
comp
magi'
who,
into
moti
own
outs
was
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get
H . as where they have no business. I Goldwater himself habitually appears to in-
, in tti ,n ® s t he thought that the mdi- ; dulge.
„iH ven tu „ _ cpnator Goldwater 1
/ ! >ald finding Senator Goldwater
c ifl teres ..nfit Should be themselves
#\ Leon Murder, M.D.
Gainesville, Fla.
•ally
Goldwater does not meet my cri-
te ria oi ^L & in my opinion, to that not un-
ice. f* e *; 0 f shortsighted, unpsychological-
^ Personalities of whom the late Senator
McCarthy was representative. These are
,0 Sitarian, megalomanic, grandiose, bas- I
3 1 narcissistic characters with a warped
ife olved problems with their personal and |
ial identity, whose oversimple solutions to
iolex problems symbolize an infantile
Sal manner of thinking and feeling, and
who in part as a result of glaring failure to look
into and understand themselves and then own
motives, tend to project what are at root t ^
own inner problems onto persons and even
outside themselves. The extreme example of tins
was of course, Hitler, whose paranoid a
megaloid delusions were tragic attempts to com
pensate for his profound
lessness and impotence. p e ws Goldwater
guilt and blame onto the^ Jews.,
projects them sinuta Ay^ ^ interests ;> Li f e
has, for such persons, little mean 8
can “identify” sow J m . Their
or some gro P ohundantly evident.
I think, for these <inci other reasons, th 3 .t
it would be an awesome tragedy for Mr. Gold-
water to become President of the United States.
[Name Withheld], M.D.
Topeka , Kansas
I think Goldwater is governed by feelings
of personal infallibility which would make it
Vtim tr\ Oppprit thp arlvirp. of P.ahiriP
/ GolOWal^'k v»v
Barry - a j stability for public serv- | of personal infallibility which would make it
f ia of P syC ° j n m y opinion, to that not un- 1 difficult for him to accept the advice of cabinet
L H e bel0I !^’ f chortsishted, unpsychological- | ministers and other specialists.
R . C. Arnold, M.D
Downey, Calif,
Two character defects of Barry Goldwater
are readily observable (this is not speculation
or conjecture but fact)',
( i) in his “shooting from the hip” method
of talking Goldwater suddenly wanders off the
subject at hand and trails into meaningless
verbiage, a sign of schizophrenia as described
by Bleuler (i.e., disturbance in association).
(^) From TV appearances it is apparent
(hat Goldwater hates and feats his wfe A t the
convention she consistently appeared depress d
and withdrawn. Certainly she was to the
IVDical enthusiastic candidate s wite and helper,
‘ 5 '' Mary Scranton. Mr. Goldwater publicly
avoided his wife, d ^ ^ w;< . puWicly
lot:„e a dabou, upon teceiving to nomination
W “ S “ wtt'So add that I
Lthand re B.G., »« ' h twSe wasTader
# j taking office and
° Ur b C T r L care Turbefore taking office and
she still is a cnroi , hort lt is
or some group airecieu ident
paranoid thinking is example. I she still is a p^ dent . in short, it is
Senator McCarthy, as ;I said is a ge fioned sat.sfact on^ Pr q , 0 ica l fitness” for
He was a dowW , views and difficult history of nervous break
WaS hre a nic Goldwatefs general views and
schizophrenic essentially the
behavior mark him as cui
same mold. . • • surp rise that several
It is, therefore, no P ardently
n al office and a history of nervous break-
political office an a man.
downs should not be held «
1 Los Angeles
It is, therefore, no - _____—
extremist view psychia- ^ ^ Go idwater does not seem to
support Mr. Go # ^ rommunist conspiracy, | aggressive in a are normal.
and occasional protane ou
support Mr. Go Comm unist conspiracy,
trists as “agents o riW _nothingism charac-
a variety of extreme n . n w hich Mr.
teristic of the kind of thinking
41
fac t
a
nd
t presi^ ellt
subject t nC j was al ,,
poor Presid ent a er personal- tfj>.
Low Mr. E.senhow Hen ryWj°f on , 0r,n.
th °se cr ^ Uf ses *«/™(pollyanna JJJ*
there (the ;>
—-- T trt ,jn<j to li ve r : aT i just
Goldwater author.®^- ^
o( idealized imas „ tho se » h ° .1 ot>
t0 some sort
of idealized 10 ,h«e «*"■
*r of
admire him ana bes t. H
“ h hippy as is; their problems are ^J
,a, ° r :«”ican S (“strong NATOU-^S
n ° n ™ and English think now’s the ,i mt 1
IfSore BarS- blows us npi). X,
tn short: Goldwater is an anal C W
wh0 believes all’s well in his “tidy” world. *
W \Nnma W;< l. ...
[Name Withheld ,
‘admire him and wramrn > „ He is prooo-
heeddse »' *”» ’T for t
therefore has not-fo^e , c0 „ rolM
Goldwater is not psychologically fit
* - ^ic TnVincrm Tf
erefore has not-so-se ^ ^ is co ntr<
downtrodden and net • who do no
except when confronted b, bluster
uoiuw«w* ; \ , T v
President, but neither is Johnson. It i s ce%
•tt Unxr& an immature nnct
CA .wpt When confronted bluster
view things his way. ee d, he succumbs
starts. If this does n f paranoid pro-
either to depressive moodm^
Presiucm, --- . .
that we will have an immature, unstable, ey ,
hibitionistic, unpredictable, and probably d Jt ,
eerous man for President for the next four y eat5
® 7 a L« r? r> ^ i
John h , -Roberfs t kj[)
New Orleans
eiinci —
^s»V- uns,ab,e and
uttor aIlce
% Conserve
of He m akc
We have long needed the opportunity f®
dangerous.
!»“ '““tf,kK
Y Y liM- T v *- w
the public to choose between conservatism ani
modern socialism. Barry Goldwater’
, * ¥ t _ ^ x, /> r, r ~* rYi o n
offers this choice. He is a sane man.
then treats tb
{acts to buiW
on e without
thoughtful n
lowness and
0 { contradic
Goldwater’s lack of maturity results in an
UUIUwaici a u
adolescent desire to attract attention > P r
vocative or belligerent statements and a lack ot
empathy with those in situations outside his own
A nonymom
Pensacola, F!fi.
His use of h
experience.
This last trait also reflects his remarkable
lack of imagination. Within his mind the most
complex issues become, of necessity, matters of
« * * , * 1 , * HP 1 _ ^ % ' 1 „
^ i \ t'AnAfirtri 1 h a an pk r m 11 a L r
Yes I believe Barry Goldwater is psycho
logically fit to serve as President th f Um ^
speaking to
a word,” 1
scornful to
States. I have heard rumors of his “nervo®
to mean-
Final
OlillvO A lid V v iivu l u j. - ^
breakdowns.” 1 believe that attempting to in«o-
Li
UUlHplvA lOOUCO uvwmv, v/ l . uvvvu^ij j v *
primitive action and reaction. The easy, quick
answers resulting from this oversimplification
have a strons aDDeal to the naive and the stunid
UlCdKUUVVIia. A * -- *, /
duce these rumors into the campaign (a •
were not introduced in the case o ^
old as "a
Gc
nosis.
have a strong appeal to the naive and the stupid
and this constitutes the threat that Goldwater
poses.
Stevenson) would leave Johnson ^
cardiac record a sitting duck for
snipers.
Irene A. Harris, M.D .
Norfolk, Va,
1 O* i _
This statement comes front one " ^
L his statement comes uom —
a very strong supporter of Stevenson an I
■ _ __f inbnson.
senile d
Characterologically, Goldwater is like
many middle-class Americans. He is “formula”
oriented with a belief in the infallibility-of his
own rhetoric. “If I sav it. it’s true ” ____
like
M. v V 1 J U L L V/ A A ^ U Vi i_/ LF V/ i. V ^ —
is an even stronger supporter of Johnson
^ ^ . u KiUlVl
sible f o
own rhetoric. “If I say it, it’s true.” For example,
the poor to him are an abstraction; he has no
Peter H- K fJ ( ^
Projessor of P
Boston University School . ■ \
1
Gold
the “poor” to him are an abstraction; he has „ u
concept of poor persons as individuals He can
1 a 7 v’T COnscience ) sa y that the
lazy. Negroes to him seem to be
It is my considered opinion huU
Barry Goldwater is psychologically ^
serve as President of the United States. ^
tion to extensive reading of his shoot
Presi
ful 1
42
SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1964
hip" utterances, I have reread his Conscience
of a Conservative.
He makes wish-fulfillment statements and
then treats them as facts. He uses these alleged
facts to build an elaborate superstructure, but
one without foundation. ... A thorough and
thoughtful reading of his opus reveals the shal
lowness and drivel of his mind. The book is full
of contradictions and exhortatory slogans.
His use of language resembles Humpty Dumpty
speaking to Alice in Wonderland, “When / use
a word,” Humpty Dumpty said m a rat er
scornful tone, “it means just what 1 c loose
to mean—neither more nor less.
Finally, someone has defined a two-year-
old as “a dwarf psychotic with a gooi piog
nosis.” Goldwater is no longer a two-year-old.
1 Name Withheld], M.D.
Los A ngeles
The Senator seems to find it difficult to
impress himself clearly. Whether this is due to
lifelong inability to handle words or to a pre¬
mie deterioration in his faculties it is impos-
ible for me to say without a personal, nternew.
T A. Phillips , M.V'
Owen, Wis.
in my professional
Goldwater is not psye^ l ^ and care
President of the U.b. Ait inferences, I
ful listening to his s P ee ^ h “ ht disorder. By
see clear evidence of a thoug
this I imply that his statements do not usually
come to a logical conclusion. At times they are
directly contradictory. There are gaps in his
associations and frequently no clear-cut infer¬
ences can be made. Furthermore, there is a
areat deal of hostility and aggression that is in¬
completely masked. Under stress or failure, his
hostility is turned inward against himself and
becomes depressed.
It is apparent that his emotional control
deficient. Frequent temper outbursts and
ne profane public utterances imply a detec-
e ego that is unable to control primitive hos-
■ emotional situations. I would postulate fur-
;r that because of inner insecurities Senator
ildwater has a need to be critical of and ca -
is to the needy and impoverished, including
jse of minority ancestry. This is a denial of
; own problems and insecurities.
A megalomaniacal, grandiose omnipotence
pears to pervade Mr. Goldwater’s personality
Ang further evidence of his denial and lack
recognition of his own feelings of insecurity
id ineffectiveness. On at least one occasion,
tien he lost a great deal of money, he had a
ipressive reaction. Poverty to him was a sym-
fi of his own insecurity and feelings o wo •*
ssness, which could not be denied.
His two “nervous breakdowns’ afe indeed
:>od evidence of his being unfit to be President
s President, he would feel seriously threatened
to Congress or allies eould no,
be fulfilled. This could lead to severe psychotic
decompensation.
Senator Goldwater’s election would be
sorry evidence of the psychopathology of
American society and a sad reflection of the in¬
sanity of our times.
[Name Withheld \, M.D.
New York
It takes a certain amount of psychopath¬
ology to become President and there is no evi¬
dence that Goldwater has any more than any
of his predecessors in the past 60 years
Stuart L. Keill, M.D.
New York
In my practice I have had in 10 years at
least 10 ham radio operators. The unique
characteristic of all of these people was an in¬
ability to communicate face to face with their
fellow man without discomfort . They spoke
easily on their radios but they could control
them by turning them on and off. With these
patients I was delighted at any constructive
effort to communicate. My patients also empha¬
sized their pleasure with the anonymity avail¬
able to them in such a setup: call letters, first
names, post-office boxes for card returns etc
r, s r, SEc r T! s ° wh ° w
what B.G. had said to a foreign leader—until
too late? uu
Norma R. Mason, M.D
Chicago
ttwtiruOi..
wzej-rfaj v
Barry Goldwater is not intelligent
to serve as President. My guess is that he
qualify as Normal or Bright Normal, I.q
A President needs to be a man of Super,
telligence.
4 VJ tut
has little capacity to withstand pressure
simple newspaper interview can throw him.
He is the exact opposite of a clear thinker
r/
an
Anonymous
New Haven , Conn
Your questionnaire is one of the most asi¬
nine, insulting documents I have ever been con¬
fronted with through the U.S. mails. Obviously,
you and your informants believe that psychiatry
is somewha on the order of necromancy, sooth¬
saying, glass-ball peering, and tea-leaf reading.
I can assure you that no self-respecting,
clinically-minded, and sincere physician or psy¬
chiatrist will answer it. 1
1 am sending a copy of this letter to Sena¬
tor Barry Goldwater’s Headquarters in Wash¬
ington, D.C.
of his ow
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Charles H. Brown, M-D-
Wichita Falls, Texas
■ ^promise. Tk
r%ded ac
cow
Goldwater is a man who makes 1400
speeches in 4 years to gain support for political
'an l acy. Then, at a point where his nomina-
on is assured, he proceeds to alienate not only
hi ui° eS anc ^ °dier minority groups but also
§ y respected, nationally-prominent, respon-
the uo<
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sible members of his own party. As an expert
fading. ! enced politician, he must know that as a
acting,
or psy-
) Sena-
Wash-
n, M.D.
Texas
minority party candidate he needs the support
of these people. Yet he acts as if they were his
enemies. Mr. G. seems to be handicapped by a
narcissism and megalomania which precludes
any compromise. Those who disagree with him
arc regarded as conspirators. He seems unable
to recognize the possibility of legitimate differ¬
ences of opinion. His view appears to be so
strictured at times as to suggest rather infantile
apperceptions. ...
It is my considered opinion that he is not
only psychologically unsuited foi the Presi¬
dency, but is in fact dangerous.
spon
I Name Withheld |, M.D.
Encino, Calif.
I want to specify that the opinions 1 hold
of Senator Goldwater are based upon my per¬
sonal observations , and not on any editorials or
reports from news media. I have had the privi¬
lege of hearing Mr. Goldwater in person and
over television several times. In addition, the
following remarks are based on my own opinion
and related to my own biases, as would be the
remarks of any person responding to such a
survey.
In contrast to reports through the news
media, when I have observed Mr. Goldwater
directly, I have been impressed wits his emo¬
tional stability and emotional control. It is true
that I have heard him utter a few words which
would be considered profane by some people;
however, I did not feel that these were inappro¬
priate. (Who has not uttered such things?
I feel that his aggressive and active ap¬
proach to problems having to do with govern¬
ment is a healthy approach. I do not see that
aggressive behavior is equal to destructive be¬
havior; these are not synonymous. There is
healthy aggressivity and 1 feel that this is what
Senator Goldwater possesses and has been in¬
terpreted by others as “destructiveness.”
With respect to his alleged “callousness to
the needy," I want to point out that my observa¬
tions iiave been that he is interested in main
taining and cultivating the dignity of man rather
than degrading him. Those people who know
Senator Goldwater personally, a thtough his
contributions to society in the State of Arizona
and as a Senator from the State oi Arizona, are
well aware that he is quite interested in the
needy and their needs to help themselves in a
dignified manner.
Thank you for this opportunity of expressing
myself.
Robert T. Dean, Jr., M.D.
Phoenix
Goldwater presents himself as dedicated to
righteousness. However, his righteousness is a
rationalization for a callousness toward less
fortunate persons.
I am afraid that as a President in pursuit
/
/
of righteousness he would start the last woil
war.
Anonymous
Englewood, N.J .
lowers belong tl unfottunate gioup of
neurotic persons who would like to be dead in
order to “get it over with” because of their enor
»
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V"
< posit
mous pathological need to find an answer for
i j i r j it
Hiuuo — c?
everything. Unfortunately, the facts of reality!
* “.u a re a P r
Please arrange an appointment for Senator are such that absolute answers are often impos-
Goldwater with our office at his convenience
and mine. At that time I will be pleased to do
sible to find and pragmatic positions are prob¬
ably the only sane ones. Mr. Goldwater and
a psychological evaluation as this is the only those who support him seem to be terrified of
_ * T ^ * f . i . . r
way a PROPER evaluation can be done.
Robert J. Kurey, M.D.
Lancaster, Pa.
this latter idea and therefore in positions of
a ■ H M _ I — A
power would be in rny judgment very danger
on ‘tiff turmc
From his published statements 1 get the
impression that Goldwater is basically a paia
noid schizophrenic who decompensates from
ous. He resembles Mao Tse-tung
Itakto
John Randolph Gonzalez, M.D.
New Orleans
fesrte tendi
time to time. His judgment is often very poor
and his outbursts of impulsive aggression I find
quite frightening in a potential President. In
addition, he seems to be shallow and unable to
empathize with many groups of people.
It is most disquieting that a man who, ac¬
cording to his wife, has suffered two complete
nervous breakdowns’’ would even be con
sidered for the office of President of the Unite
*4 * _ rtf O
Name Withheld], M.D.
Boston
States. The term “nervous breakdown is not a
medical term. What is usually hidden behind
Mr. Goldwater strikes this psychiatrist as
« ■* * *
personally honest but impulsive, given to snap
| 4 « J"* 11 | * 4 |
—*■ — —■ t —- m- » « « ■»■ * “■ “ j ■
this term is either a severe depression with sui
cidal trends or a schizophrenic reaction. Eit
of these possibilities means serious menta 1
r . „ _ __ ptM-
judgments on the basis of moods, to be basically
quite intolerant of the varied modes of thinking
of the human race and to have an authoritarian
ness and the strong possibility of further cpi
sodes, especially under stress.
doctrinaire approach to very complex problems.
J , _ J 1 1 A 1 . 4
This probably indicates a great deal of internal
_ * A t v
I am especially impressed by what 1 c ^
sider to be the paranoid trends in Goldwater
r . .. _atilt 1
personality. His irritability, public P rof ^
- r __ „ - # and lack of feeling for others are all conslS .?-
anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty. It strikes with this personality type. The slip*^
me that Mr. Goldwater and many of his fol-
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SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1964
lnate *
e to be
lSe thar e
facts of si
ire
* ■
toons are p
Goldwater
3 be terrie;
in
nt very fe
c
IN i
:V
1 iteflUi
areat Republican—I mean Repub-
If indeed Senator Goldwater has suffered
A this g& dl A r 11
ed ,,^1 n dicates a strong megalomanic , from anxiety in the past, then from a psychia¬
trist’s viewpoint he must have undergone a com-
- t deserves full details of the two plete cure—the criteria for which are the ability
breakdowns.” Eminent psychiatrists | to resume a full and active life, to participate in
h ve an opportunity to evaluate these useful work, to face facts squarely without m-
lU ^ ■ yhe full facts of Eisenhower's heart
ep kfand Johnson’s were made known. It is
a " aC much more important that the facts about
Mdwater’s mental illness be fully disclosed.
[Name Withheld], M.D.
New York
security.
The insecure, the neurotics, the over-com¬
pensators are found among the socialists who
would achieve equality by destroying indi¬
viduality.
Richard B. Irvine, M.D.
Concord, Calif.
It has been my experience that previous
mental breakdowns in an individual predispose
him to a future breakdown. . . . This certain y
does not mean to demean those who have had
, a j. fimp T would
His poor hostility control, his rigidity, his
uncompromising single-mindedness, his use of
words with a private interpretation all lead me
, ♦ • _ j —__io foul t\r Hold-
does not mean to demean those who have ^ ^ his judgment is faulty. Gold
mental breakdowns. At the same , ] water ’ s two nervous breakdowns weie probab )
nof want such an individual to be President of waterstw . .
_ctamina and C20
not want such un . ,
the U.S., a position where stamina ai g
strength are a prime requisite. ^ ^ M D
New York
Goldwater seems to me an aggressive, im
pulsive person who actively P romo es c h -
between groups, probably as a response to
own inner turmoil. ., f se ]f.
I think there is also some e.,dence o ^
destructive tendencies. • • • , moi
this might promote the disaste
le deluge. \Narne I ^ithheld | ,_M -D-
water’s two nervous breakdowns were probably
paranoid schizophrenic in nature. That is, he
probably had delusions of persecution How
would a President who had the delusion that t e
enemy had loosed a covey of missiles re^ct. He
would probably order our missiles launched an
away we’d go! ^ withheld], M.D.
Chicago
It would be very important to kn ™
Mr Gold water’s two “nervous breakdowns
really were. They appear to have been depres-
sive episodes, and there is strong ev, ence , ^
FACT
. Vohilitv. profanity*
symptoms of “disturbing than his
etc. What is much m thinking. It 1S
“breakdowns,” however, . deeply the
difficult to judge whether h f ]) ers but
paranoid ideas of certain of T"’ ch to
he seems to share the simp f both
problems typical of extremists of
1 1 f J
wrong, and I am writing y ou this ] etf
you may have at least one statement ** s ° 'L
opposing viewpoint. ^ ot a v alj
human t
the left and right
;ft and right. , 0 chn d-
Perhaps one day we will demand
. , ^^rpc^nfatives as
R ° bertC Mur phy
ty’a r,, tyh
av ''W
I do not believe Barry Goldwat~
ard of mental health in our represents iv -
we do in other spheres. Presidents o arge c
porations today demand psychological e\a ua
tions before hiring key executives. It woul ap
pear that running American businesses is more
important than running the American govern-
— „ J ^ lu water •
choJogically fit to serve as President %
United States because, wittingly 0r Un *° f
he tends to bring out the latent parano^^
encies which exist in a rather large n ten ^
of the population. That is, he tends
ui r ^ tends to ;
vague fears (Big Government, Comniuni t
niner this or that orpanizatirm x s * s
e
ln citi
.-o- > ~ -’ ^iiunun' e
ning this or that organization, etc.) a , ru "-
to project blame onto others. Also he ^
feel victimized as a result of imagined t0
ties or minor discomforts. . . . Goldwaterj
ment.
Oscar Sachs, M.D.
New York Psychoanalytic Institute
\lew York
I wonder if Goldwater s position on human
rights isn’t a strong denial of that minority part
of his ancestry, the Jewish part, which has suf¬
fered so at the hands of people such as himself.
I I mucoff i_• i v
■ ^uiuwater
champion of paranoids, who, in extreme
see him as a Messiah sent to save thJi?^’
thesie imapinpfl thr^atc? furt-i^u „„
u * • _t i w Sdve mem from
these imagined threats (which are actually tb
own latent naranoid nrnifwi™„\ ^ / ineir
own latent paranoid projections) For thefi
TZ1 "JIT' e,eCti0f ! these P-Pfehavea
(I myself am not Jewish.)
champion of their own and they am makin"^
most of it. 6 I
A nonyrnous
Beverly Hills, Calif.
and nil if' S ° rt ° f marriage betwee " Psychiatry
tesauc p'v S i, y0U - 3re Pr ° posing is u «erJy gro¬
*« judging , poatical cnididaTTh “ T
actors to one no.nH u , inan do tnovie
The danger is that those citizens who are
usually more stable will have their latent para-
aroused to the extent of 2
seeing Goldwater as a savior.
[Name Withheld], M.D.
_ _ St. Louis
actors to one cigarette hr ,na ° mov
I would not b hnn ° Ver an ° ther - • • ■
water elected but I do not ^h''r ^ r '
frophe would be reallv mnrh 11 ^ at tllat caf as-
already represented by our ^noVt ^T than that
If Mr. Goldwater is eLr Ca, . system - • ■ .
that those of us who arelJn"^ 1 Sll,lp, y mean
IfGoldwater were elected, there would un-
donhf, n u - ciecteci, mere would un-
with th ^ c an emotional maturation that goes
wifh fi — uiaiuranon inaigoes
adderi C Iesp °nsibility of the office and the
stances fcrOWth ° f t,le ego under such circum-
that those of us who ^ slm P Iy mean I pared^n'm 61 ^ Truman °or Johnson were pre-
them Un, a n Predicament -f know'f 8108 With PrcsKlent^i psycholo gmal make-up to fill the
em ’ 3nd ^ -. I A 3 nu mber of | ^ are many individuals
suddenly !! er specific stress of leadership
si°n. Unde U ^ on ^ ern to rise to the occa-
as the hiehl^ at ^ C COnd ^tions, a lowly corporal
Siestr^i^ . _ ev en with'
^^icament-
em ’ and there must be a V' “ llu moer of
A»d ,h ere is „„ c » a littfc hard
and discovery. pne ln that, only j 0y>
. 1 know that not all
ft.™ a? S*« .0 iU
are
as T
So will se;r t o ly m a e S S ^ U ask - fffteVd 11 ' 3
me shortsighted . Ir d om
at
sh ortsight e d a nH' r d ° ing
and utterly
the highest rani ndltl ° nS ’ 3 Io
out the nrv- c sur vivor will-
° f ,h ' PlatSTkadef i ” g ~ S ‘ eP inl °
disturbed 6 * n . tePectu aI community that h aS
^he roots nf 3 p ^ ude about Senator Goldwater-
48
'ne roots of Z about Senator Goldwaw-
Gifted and h ‘ S are dee P and all-pervadmg-
ea tive people have always f° UI1
SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1964
f t u e privatelv worked backyard garden plot
:ater security under a paternalistic system roducing vegetable crops in satellitecoun-
' it be a university, corporation, or a | P ...in, state-controlled agn-
rri_ _! — oinability to
in producing vegetable crops in satellite coun-
®es as compared with
her it be a " m ^/’ ]ative inability to tries as compareu w. such example.
* the mechanisms of a eompeunve soc,^. |
; the mecnaiuMiib ^-* , u^rmr
them the justification to l "° {re J l enter p r ise
he so-called excesses o see m to
ie so-canea ' oWc « eem to
■omy. For in business ot er^
ate. It is not the one with ^ ®o* *
the one with the most daring
cultural commune j • q certain
The species genus homo behaves ^
predictable way and no amount J
idealism will erase the fundamental facts
m
biological adaptations. is psvc ho-
Yes, I think Barry Goldwater P y
_ P ^ _ A
eve recognition. hetter conv
Since the intellectual bust ling
logically fit to be President.
Since the inteiieevuaa ^ bustling
CSS'rU m — .he
Adolphe D. Jonas, M-D.
New Rochelle, N.i •
freewheeling county , i ture and the
^UlXn £ more his basic
media will ine will be to
Barrv Goldwater is absolutely not fit to
serve as President! Unconsciously, he seems o
serve as ._ Ua hn5 . a good start,
will men -- u„ tn
, f i:t e His tendency will be t
alize man as a nobl difficult
ffize man as a no-e e ^ ^ ^ difficult
y an imperfect s y f i ^nme high
Impossible for all to achieve the same g
serve as Presiaeni. ^ - a „ ood sta rt,
rLVafahU destroy^ .he R=P^”
Further evidence of his self-destrucme
P arl ^‘ . . _z 4 ^fnliate trees in Viet-
Senator Goldwater represents, irrespective
his state ; _^fers to rely upon
nesses to defoliate trees in Viet¬
nam, Which would probably lead to nuclear war
chev fo the brink is also evidence of self-
riocs he expect
his »«"». ; fers t0 rely upon
heiem f;” g her Zr, be supported by
own resou _ keeping with
own , s in keeping with
jaternahstic ag y- ^ Yankee inge -
: on S ma ^ a rgue about the place of such
ity. One could a g a n its com-
titudes in a modern society
IXi There is however, abundant proof of .he
peSy of individuai
)vernment-coi i u o 1 1 ed
chev t0 . me t ondencies What does he expect
destructive tendencies.
them to do, get off the planet. Hpstmetive
In short, 1 see too many self-destructive
elements in this man to let him lead our coun¬
try Whether or not these are connected wit
say P The fact that he has had two nervous
breakao nervous breakdown usually
Sats a Schotic illness and the residues of
fact
*** arc M « “"‘nol
do under stress of the Presidency,
like to speculate. ,
I am not bigoted against mcnt ‘
Rather. I am for mental health. I believe the
leader of our country should be in the best of
mental health. He is dealing not only with him-
* 1
self and his family, but with all mankind.
In closing, I cannot help but comment
upon the parallel between Goldwater and the
rightist-extremists and Hitler and the Nazis.
Hitler had his Jews, and Goldwater has his
Negroes.
Name Withheld |, M,/).
San Francisco
What type of yellow rag are you operat¬
ing? I have never in my life witnessed such a
shabby attempt to smear a political candidate.
I would suggest that you change the name of
your magazine to ‘•Fancy," or better, “Smear”!
Marvin J. Allison, M.D.
Richmond, Va.
Barry Goldwater is not more in<san»
Khrushchev who is also known for h st
tantrums (e.g., banging the table with h T"'
at , the U N -)- Khrushchev is a shrewd *
pulous mass-murderer, while Barrv r, .T^'
vidual. U lor the human indi-
It is a historical truth that procrastin at -
and retreat because o fear usually cause defe
and destruction. Instead of avoiding -- -•
they invite them.
conflicts
It is my conviction that Barry Goldwater
will be a wise and courageous leader of tfe
country.
K.B. Ertavi, M.D,
Rochester, N.Y
Consistent with Goldwater’s paranoid
traits is his sensitivity to questions about his
honesty and integrity”—obvious unconscious
substitutes for his masculinity. I have the feel¬
ing that if someone were consistently to ques¬
tion Goldwater about his masculinity in these
terms he would lose control of himself....
r Name Withheld], M.D.
San Francisco
II you will send me written authorization
from Senator Goldwater and arrange for an ap¬
pointment, 1 shall be happy to send you a report
1 * *
concerning his mental status.
The same goes for you.
Hubert Miller, ig
As
siderabl
5 a board certified psychiatrist with
* finical experience, I cannot hop .
—^ finical experience, i cain^ 1 **■
be res Ponsive to shades and nuances of
water’s pers
newspapers
hell out of :
ngid. He la
side of a p
that Mr. <
dined to s
respond at
to be pi tie
he would
of
it
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of
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>rization
t an ap-
a report
Her, M.D.
Detroit
ith con-
ielp but
>f Gold-
water’s personality as conveyed by television,
newspapers, periodicals, etc. He frightens the
hell out of me. It is obvious that his thinking *
rigid. He lacks the ability to see more than ■
i of a problem. ... 1 <=annot help but fee
that Mr. Goldwater is an unhappy man, «
dined to see only the worst in people d
respond accordingly. As a humar, bemg he^
to be pitied. As President of the u
he would be a disaster. withheld ], M.D.
1 Seattle
C- ~ the matter of psychological fitness
„f Goldwater has been broug^ ^
it behooves someone feent Does not his
regarding the present his automo bile
bettay°his lack of judgment and an irresponsi¬
bility sufficient to ^^psychiattist but
1 "I," Tike h on tlTe opinion that
1 am roXater^t emffiently q ualified- P sy-
in every other way-to serve
chologicall> an States.
as president CorM , H . Thigpen M.D.
I A K Kncia te Projesso r of Psych t a try ,
A Medical College of Georgia
1 Augusta , Ga.
f the co-authors of the Three
P.S. 1 am one of the co au
Faces of Eve.
**££•
No, I don’t think Goldwater is psychologically
fit to serve as President of the United States.
Frederick F. Boyes, M.D.
Berkeley, Calif.
I am a diplomate of the American Board
of Psychiatry and Neurology, a member of a
appointments in several hospitals and a medical
school breakdown" is a layman’s term
for describing a situation in which an individua
'“uSc «o 8 seppor, >n.o.erab.e feeUn^u.
has escaped from his problem* by de^vdop^
° f reality and
,s sevete, mclua 8 QWn fee iings onto
projection of te seem to h i m to come
others, so individual has tremendous
from others. Such an in ^ and has n0
SenTsf oTthe impact of his behavior upon
olhcrs -"'. th , t Mr Goldwater had two
Knowing that ivu. w
nervOUS XofSaTwreX tobeXcted. My
slant state ot tear H1 ma kes me
r»»ld no. control hi S feelings or
realize that no eem f ace S itua-
restrain h,s or opposition to his wishes.
tions of severe t u n t he is now cured of his
JSSZZSXX ibe same position
than
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. t q’he disease
as a “cured” tuberculosis pat^ ^ hjg Iungs but
may have stopped ^ ak, .^ led with cavities and
his lungs are already { a person
will never be as good as he lung
who has never had tubercu os •
unfit to serve due to his having suff ered
chiatric illness previously. It would have? 5 *'
_i,, Vmve thus nrevenfprt A ^en
s ^ a
$ li^fess' 10
,ro
al
ntr
has never had tuDercu.^. em0 -
The Presidency deman . ilit to withstand
tional maturity and a great a Q^ater
a tragedy to have thus prevented hi m
coming President. be '
f., *- c
i\ D l0g\ t ;ye
Car nah Qn
mis °n»ii M o?:
Goldwater
frustration and stress. l “|’. Nor do they
has not displayed these qualities. Nor
develop overnight or under hre.
As a Charter Subscriber to FACT
* _CT n
1 mthhe Hw York
solid fan since your first issue, I find it a
* * j ♦
and
pleasure to participate in your survey.
i - - — ■#“ W IK jF *■* __ |
Your “survey” raises doubts in my'
as to your psychological fitness to pu
national magazine,
FACT.”
especially one
as
u
Edmund V. Cowdry, Jr., M.D.
St. Louis
Mr. Lincoln was also described by some
«- ■*ff * _
In attempting to answer the question 0 f
man’s psychological fitness to serve as P res j.
dent, let us take the case of Abraham Lincoln
a man described by many who knew him ’
moody, gloomy, and melancholy; a man who
suffered on at least two occasions from “periods
of deepest gloom.” One biographer states that
during such episodes Lincoln almost went in-
sane and had to be watched to be prevented
from suicide. Had the medical authorities of
Lincoln’s day been aware of these facts, would
*1 i 1 • 11 *11
* A .A? 1 -
authors in such a way as to question his emo¬
tional stability. It is my hope that Mr. Gold-
water can do as much for the U.S.A. as did Pres.
Lincoln.
Francis A. O’Donnell, M.D.
Colorado Springs, Colo.
they have considered him psychologically fit to
serve as President? What would have been the
— a -m + 4
correct judgment of this man who is revered as
one of our greatest Presidents? What would
* ^ . -i ■ __.L _
have been the correct j udgment of this man who
* * "il ■ 1 _ — _> U ,«L II I jTI:! n T
If psychiatry had been as popular a hun¬
dred years ago as it is today, Abraham Lincoln
would have been subjected to the same question
you now raise re Goldwater. Lincoln doubtless
during his lifetime apparently had, as would be
described in lay terms, two “nervous break-
^ ^ w * « j - ^ 7
downs”? And what, we might add, is a “nervous
breakdown”? This is a term which has been
would have been seen by many of my group as
a, -w -rnm-Tp a b r i 1 m » ™ T T
applied indiscriminately to the gamut ofhun^n
emotional reactions, from mild anxiety an
pression to severe mental illness.
i» trl LugU 1
;h $ ot :
“ ea
«tf se °hs issued
* »" d r
. I be' 1
ot- 3 \\cd
ca
tcold loS*
ooi
iuiiy
an
OnW
underst°
m fallible op'
ny Gold* ate ;
President ot t
as
Would it t
had our countr
Lincoln simply
depressions? ^
to have our co
row Wilson s
tremely mood
indicates an a
upon yoursel
don't y<
who express^
h ility of eit
^ r csidency c
new s items <
^bis can hai
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1964
• i such complex questions before us Abraham Lincoln had “nervous breakdowns”
it” w * * c „___ _i _ i _ _
" lt i- m jted information to proceed on,
|UC a professional conclusion regarding
p chin 8 h oi 0 gical fitness of Barry Goldwater is
speculative venture. Being human, can
hlgh L a trists maintain the necessary detach-
Ve PS for a thoroughly unemotional, logical, and
If Li point of view concerning a problem
£* involves us so intimately? I believe that
w ot I believe that any opinion offered by
r;,f my colleagues will be. at best, an edu-
S- p* fro "
severe reactive depressions—and also was
very unhappily married to a wife of question¬
able mental health. Yet Lincoln was a good
President. Goldwater apparently has had quite
n /l i f 4“ 11 In ACC U /1 tlh tYI QUIP CVtlintnilTlS
JL A V U A Vp* V A A v * vy T T Li V V A M M Li A V A A It AT ^
a different sort of illness, with manic symptoms
and loss of ego stability when under stress. I
- # ^ H “i 1 i _ l ^ -L i 1.4
atlVi 1 UM KJL tgu - --
wonder too if we should not speak of three
breakdowns and cite his inability to finish col¬
lege.
« fears, and prejudices, sparingly seasoned
,L/.
Certainly the Presidency is the most stressful
task that a man in our society can undertake.
. ^ _nf i*on rrt n
No
Z cold logic and clear understanding
person with questionable ego strength
should be subjected to such stress.
t « * "If 1
( vith coiu lugiv -- | Ac a lifelong Republican I have been debat
Only with these ® own ing leaving the Republican party at this time.
fu ,ly understood can il jusbhahly off^ Represented by Goldwater, it no longer repre-
f hible opinion: I believe that Senator Represented oy
very _ ., , P _•_^v,cvirhoira11v fit to serve sents my beliefs.
verv ianiLuc - —
Bam Goldwater it psychologically fit to serve
J .. ^ .r, C + O+f^C
as President ot the United States.
T.E. Powell, M.D.
Hampton Bays, N.Y.
James E. Kirkham , Jr., M.D-
Houston
News reports on Barry Goldwater mdi-
cate that he is an emotionally unstable. ■">!>" .
, _ _ -— — ^^ I (jate tnat nc is ^
Would it not have been a shame to have sive> inadequately J’ J™ 3
WUUIU IL nut uu<v
had our country lose the services ot / ra
J . +<-k Qp.vere
uau uui lvjuiivij awov, v-.- -- ^ _
Lincoln simply because he was subject to se^ ^
depressions? Would it not have betn a ^ ,
uepressionsr wuuiu u -- u/ j
to have our country lose the services o
. . . _ u~ ton was ex-
■ ■ r ■ ■ j* ■ v l l Kill v mf LlAHV 1 ii Jk m * m
row Wilson simply because he, too, was .
tremely moody? The title of ^our ma ^ a .
indicates an awesome obligation you
ind^vidualTwouId not want .ny public official
to have any of these traits, and certainly not a
Prp^ident of the United States.
A history of wo “nervous breakdowns, no
mauer What their nature or their supposed
mattei ^“ ai . __* emotion-
muiL^ies an awesumt . , f ,, t
upon yourself. You propose to P ubIls ? ’
Why don't you do just that? Any P s ^ c . ^
who expresses an opinion concerning
gibility of either of the major candidates .
Presidency of the United States on e Q in , on .
mat r is presumptive evidence of an emotion
ally-vulnerablejrersonahty- ^ ^ ^ ^
„f person to be cm™ rf ^
bU Xe, Some of my colleagues may point
United Stntes Some or and Wood .
out that l m ' of w| ^ m had lheir emotional
^cMuency oi me — opinion.
news items can only be expressi g
This can hardly be fact. Knowles, M.D.
Roy L ; v . , Center
Director, Minnehah ^ iol a Falk, S.Dok.
Tffirulties— -served well as Presidents. I say that
flTlc past such persons have successfully
served in high places, we were just lucky.
A no ny mo us
Philadelphia
l feel that there is a h j lo sophy,
nal consistency in Mr. Goldwa taken in
which could well be interprete w ^ ^ e mo-
association with his outbursts an c ^ ot * c per-
tional control as evidence of a ^ cerne( j with
sonality structure. I am mor ® ^° kdown s” than
the character of his “nervous ^
that he had breakdowns. It seems
notable lack of inter
V feel that Goldwater’s election would be
a catastrophe for the nation and quite possibly
would prelude the end of civilization. This
lounds melodramatic, but in this age is not un-
reallS l’can tell you that I intend to work with all
,he energy I can possibly mus.er in a Republi-
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cans-for-Johnson movement.
Mary L.V. Schaef, M.D.
St. Louis
I do not think there is the slightest doubt
that Senator Goldwater is well adjusted and at¬
tuned to reality. As a psychoanalyst with over
40 years experience, and with the opportunity
of observing Goldwater at firsthand (though
not as a personal or professional acquaintance
but because I reside in the same general area
as he) and with knowledge of his activities and
thinking processes, I believe I am in a fairly
good position to state that he is exceptionally
well-adjusted and in tune with reality.
Reginald B. Weiler, M.D.
Scottsdale, Ariz .
I am constantly astounded at the incon¬
sistencies of Goldwaters thinking. It would ap¬
pear to me that lie has a serious thinking dis¬
turbance, i.e., contradictory ideas exist side-by-
side in consciousness. His rigidity and obvious
obsession with power would label him as a dan¬
gerous individual and a threat to this country
second only to Hitler at the beginning of the
Third Reich!
[Name Withheld |, M.D.
Raleigh, N.C.
I would consider Senator Goldwater to be
an idealist and a patriot. He impresses me as a
reserved individual who does not like to be
hounded by the press, don’t believe he has had
temper-tantrums although he undoubtedly has
been irritable at times and this is thoroughly
understandable. I would consider him to be a
modest man with considerable warmth but gen¬
erally reserved and tending to keep his private
life separate from public life. He will not stoop
to underhanded maneuvering as has been done
against him. . . . Incidentally, if you are going
to base this report on the opinions of the psy¬
chiatrists in this country, you should make it
clear that psychiatrists as a group are far more
socialistic in their thinking than the medical
profession at large. This is understandable be¬
cause so much of psychiatry has a ready become
socialized medicine.
Robert L. Garrard, M.D-
Chief Psychiatrist, Cone Hospital
Greensboro, N.C.
history
open a
and hi;
stand
he gf
butto
tec
Goldwater has not only accepted and is
advocating the national paranoid delusions of
persecution and megalomania which are the
Mein Kampf platform of the Birchers, the Ku
Klux Klan, etc., he has even announced delu
sions o! persecution in regard to his own person.
There is no doubt that Mr. B.G. is mental}
deranged.
The provocativeness and a 00 --~ ,
personalities such as this candidate for
Presidency are based on their need for ro u ff^
olent contact, because they are incapG k
tender contact. They also have to “shoot
r
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SEPTEMBER-0C1 OBER 1964
t
roV e a masculinity of which they
hip” t0 \ in doubt. This also explains the
triiicn 111 ^-
vet)' 111 ddict jon to public temper-tantrums
5 dida lltbursts of profanity. .
dlus° u of the paranoid personality is
The C ° r !nality and latent homosexuality.
• ally J ?not know that B.G. had two nervous
\ Ls so far, but I should not be sur-
br -f the nomenclature “nervous break-
pris ed „. bein „ used to camouflage outright
downs ,s
\Name Withheld \, M.D .
Chicago
photic episodes.
^0 psychiatrist of my personal acquaint-
.. less than alarmed at the Goldwater
1Ce t 1 only hope that the publication of
. ehiatric opinion will not react to throw more
nmature and unstable voters into the Gold
rater camp They might identify with him. You
Hwl^hat the whole mental-heahfi move-
ient has been under attack. . , • Go > ld * atcr
istorv of inadequate emotional contiol, h
■pen advocating of the use of nuclear power
nd his inability to abide by any one proclaimed
tand make him a man truly to be feared shou
le get his fingers near those dead y p
,utt0ns - L.G. Lobb, M.D.
Patton, Calif.
Barry Goldwater seems to have a per-
ly normal amount of aggressiveness, * 1 * *
nal limits, aggression is highly desiia e.
erican wants a passive man as Piesi en .
Elizabeth IV- Ayer, M.D-
Charleston, X c.
Senator Goldwater impresses me as t z &
aranoid personality or a schizophi^nic, P
c type. I believe that he is full o es
tility and aggressiveness. I thin ®
gile ego controls and extreme impu siv 1
No matter how compensated he may
'sent, he is a potentially dangerous ma
f Name WithheId ], M-fd■
l cZ,n
fit. B.G. is disliked by most psychiatrists be¬
cause, in my opinion, B.G. is disliked by Jews
and in this country by far the majority of psy¬
chiatrists are Jewish. Has this something to do
with the fact that B.G. is one-half Jewish?
E.B. Jackson, M.D.
Medical Director, Buffalo Psychiatric Clinic
Buffalo , N.Y.
Senator Goldwater seems to represent a
relatively common type of personality disorder
of an infantile narcissistic variety, prone to
function in tyrannical dictatorial ways and to
be susceptible to breakdowns because of im¬
maturity.
I have very mixed feelings about a survey
of this type, feeling on the one hand that psy¬
chological assessment of important candidates
is an enormously significant issue, and on t e
other that it is subject to such risk and abuse
that very careful methods for its application
must be found. . n
William S. Horowitz , M.D.
Beverly Hills, Calif.
Yes, I believe Goldwater is
psychological ly
In times of severe psychological stress
when the anxiety level is high and the problems
extremely complex, there is a strong tendency
for people to retreat to a P r ' mltiv ^^ de °
dan "erf are denied, and solutions seen in a 1-
or-notlfing terms. Good and evil are viewed a
“““e enemy (U, Commumm the em-
hndiment of evil. In the regressed state there
^splitting of .he ego, which allow, projecuon
an “ S phenomenon of Go.dwa.er's popn-
, rity is psychological regression in a world
grown too disorganized and complicated to be
understood by certain groups of people whose
nersonalities are brittle and easily threatened.
P Senator Goldwater himself has tended to
speak in absolutes and to advocate the all-or-
nothing approach to problems characteristic of
primitive thinking. There is an aura of grandi¬
osity about him that I think is dangerous in a
man of high office, and an attitude of false
humility that suggests insincerity. His provoca-
• «. of the term “extremism” together with
tive use ot the term former t’rest
his ability to pacify a man w ind i-
dent Eisenhower with doubleta mora ,
cate a clever deceptiveness, hilosop hy
integrity, and an adherence to the v
that the end justifies the means.
r Name Withheld J, M.u-
Two previous nervous breakdowns, how¬
ever slight or brief, should make us unwilling
to trust Mr. Goldwater under the stiain of the
Presidency.
Ursula G. Stewart, M.D.
Franklin Square, N.Y.
An all-powerful paternal Federal govern¬
ment tends to create immature citizens who will
almost surely lose the ability to care for them¬
selves adequately with a subsequent loss of self-
respect.
A good leader is not usually an individual
who is “well adjusted” because without some
discontent there can be no motivation to do
anything more than attempt to maintain the
status quo.
Yes I do believe Barry Goldwater is psy¬
chologically fit to serve as President.
Charlotte ,
I believe GoldwatlThaT a mask'ofT-
covering an inner political madness He is
and intemperate in his
pulsive
need to show himself as strong and n lanh
ably indicates doubts as to his
Since his nomination, I find myself increas'^
thinking of the early 1930s and the rise
other intemperate, impulsive, counterfeit fig 31 *
of a masculine man, namely, Adolf Hitler ^
I Name Withheld ], M l)
Atlanta
Although I heartily agree with about 80?
of Goldwater’s professed program, I very much
fear his rash, impulsive outbursts. On the
domestic front these outbursts could be recti
fied, probably, but in international relations it
would be like walking a chronic suicidal tight¬
rope.
m.d.
Burner, N.C.
... In Barry Goldwater, one can sense a
strong sense of underlying rage, a compulsive
need to prove his masculinity, and a compulsive
1 to receive parental and particularly mater¬
nal approval. This was manifest at the G.O.P.
convention in Goldwater’s preoccupation with
^ lc c ^ ecl r his nomination upon his wife....
His statement about justified extremism showed
that, although like most politicians he is
opportunistic, he is unable to control his need
to find people and institutions upon which he
can displace his enormous unconscious rage-
any people have this unconscious rage but in
'. JT '
iTA^
HrHU
IfiRmL
_k.
r n
<>!
and pariiciiiar|
manifest at tie G:
on upon his k
most of us the development of our conscience which Goldwater probably is—never get picked
(superego) is sufficient to keep this well under
control. But in Barry Goldwater it is too close
the surface. Therefore, he is an extremely
dangerous man.
I would like to stress that I am presenting
up by superficial Armed Services tests.
Oswald qualified for the Marines, didn’t he?
Incidentally, with a history of two nervous
breakdowns, Mr. Goldwater could not get life
insurance without a rider for mental illness. I
a personal opinion, as I have not in any way
been involved with Mr. Goldwater in a ptofes-
might add that I am a registered Republican
but will not vote for Goldwater.
sional capacity
\Name Withheld], M.D.
New York
[Name Withheld], M.D.
New York
I served as flight surgeon in the U.S.A.F.
I speak with authority when 1 say that Senator
Goldwater is devoted to one of the basic
Goldwater could not be a jet pilot il he v
principles upon which this country was built:
He who does not work shall not eat. Every week
emotionally unstable.
Wilbert A. Lyons, M.D
Sellersville, Pa
I get the clinical impression that Goldwatei
may well be a chronic schizophrenic. One does
not have two isolated nervous breakdowns a
the age Goldwater had them except in t e case
_ i oi^i^nnhrcnic. * * *
in my clinical practice I see potentially produc¬
tive and self-respecting human beings joining
the ranks of the needy because a paternalistic
. hand-
Federal government through “welfare
outs encourages their infantile dependency
me age Goldwater had tnem .
of psychotic depression in a schizophrenic.
Just as Eisenhower had a medical wor up
_t . . . , should
Just as Eisenhower had a meaicai
show his physical health, Goldwater s °' _
have a psychological battery to show is
stability. Goldwater supporters point to t e
he flies jets and say that ^ pr °^ rmed
needs. It is immoral for a government to en¬
courage its citizens to abandon responsibility
for themselves. Yet this is precisely what the
Federal government is doing, controlled by a
, _ ■ _ _ __. _ JL, j-fc.
ponderous and self-serving bureaucracy far
distant from the people in need of help. Far
from seeming callous to the downtrodden and
mat he flies jets ana say r
mental stability. This is poppycock, l ne a
S ervices do no significant psychiatric w
on their officers and only get rid o t e _
they are overtly psychotic. Covert-psyc o
needy, Senator Goldwater has an abiding
respect for their human dignity and an unshake-
able resolve not to exploit their weaknesses for
political and emotional gain. . . .
Since it seems likely that some of the Sena¬
tor’s political foes will try to smear him on the
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. i would like to
subject of his mental hea i. ^ phen0 mena
make one further comme ^ ^ seen some
af “nervous breakdow • .~a «ulv
1 a f>nrlv
)f “nervous »«»- teens and eu :
people, particularly in illnesses o
wenties, go throug ] hizop hrenia, recove
he type we describe cre ative, happy
md go on to lead more> P ’ could possi bly
and productive lives tha the refine-
have managed without exp e cruc ible of
ment of their spirits m the fiery ical
psychosis. There are a number o ^
explanations for this but I would mer .
record the observation that it occ ^
Dr. Karl Menmnger, in nis o
u r. is.au ’ ... -up.
balance (page 406), comments on P
lomenon and mentions several extraordina .
lUlllCllUii Cinu --
-reative. productive, and stable people who rose
;o greatness after suffering a major mental dis¬
order. One of these was Abraham Lincoln.
Otis J . Woodard, Jr., M.D.
Albany, Ga.
I feel very strongly that Senator Gold-
water, in view of his erratic statements and atti¬
tudes, and especially in view of his previous
breakdowns,’' would be a menace to the peace
and security of the world if he were Presi-
44
dent. . . .
His grandiose manner and God-like self-
image border on the pathologic. Even if he is
an honorable apostle of conservatism (as he
4 -i
claims)
the prospect of a man previously
susceptible to disintegration under stress beim*
the person with the red telephone on his desk
sends icy chills down my spine.
[Name Withheld], M.D.
New York
I have been somewhat concerned
the
ethics of collecting this kind of expert
ion
about a Presidential candidate, but fW
Word slips during his talks lead me to "feel
Senator Goldwater is grandiose and unstahi
with tremendous self-investment. b e ’
I feel he is destructive to n; m ,,
Southern and Western United StaSs “
Assoc Proie^ ^ M »-
MfeSSOr 0/ P °> Chi °'r>:
St. p a[{ i
my
anxiety over Goldwaters candidacy
ov
ercome my ethical objections. I find him tow
a
latter-day Miniver Cheevy, way out of t0Uch
with the realities of the nuclear age. He i s ^
sessed of a dangerous nostalgia for a 19th cen-
mry which he sees as a Golden Age when in
fact it was a time of gieat suffering and hard¬
ship. Goldwater’s statements are impulsive, il.
logical, and divorced from generally accepted
word usage, as when he uses the term conven-
sense of historical development. If his "nervous
breakdowns” mean that he was hospitalized for
psychiatric reasons, I think this alone should
disqualify him for the Presidency, or any other
hiuh executive position. ;
[Name Withheld], M.D.
New York
The funny thing about this puerile survey
of yours is that I was on the point of subscrib
ing to your magazine on the advice of a relative.
m hi
This raises the question of emotional illness
within my own family.
Yes, I think Goldwater is mentally healthy.
A nonyffl 011 -
Boston
evil
Goldwater sees the world as good vs.
black vs. white, etc. This kind of behavior an
thinking is typical of age 2-3 years, the an
# _
peiiod of development. This could explain!
outburQtc /_ “anal woros*
outbursts of profanity (use of , .
cuis0 NNO, 'ds). Destructiveness with grandiose
■ oniI hpntcnce fantasies) are also typi ca ^ c V
a S e * It seems clear to me that Senator 0
w ater has a significant part of his persona-
^ogaged in struggling with these infainib
11 1 flicts over them. . * •
e t0 v > '
tf me oi
co^ 6
^ Goto
W eS 1 „ e op
i5 ‘oiyp
if
0'
jb°
ve
reg a
,niy
tfiey
C C
■ may
Gold Wt
scrutiny
L
tional nuclear weapons. His intelligence ap- feSSl( ,
pears to be far below that of any Presidential
candidate I have ever known about. He has no
nal
shrewdly ;
while th^
I sV
motivate
agree w
defeat <
backfire
Be
permit
analysi
many
an adi
tic tr;
in pr<
tions.
^ ^ V V VJl *
Your questions present the frustiu ^
Psychratmts always face. We can vafcrt&
ea f about human behavior in
sense a
can understand a vo
SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1964
we are as little able to control the
;i ,rtu natcly ’ we understand as is the geologist
,henO mena ntrol an erupting volcano. We can
,ble t0 C °. he i p modify the individual patients
Wily tf y a " f their own volition and place them-
vh ° come therapeU tic or analytic situation.
;elve , 'People would listen to what 1 sketched
f 0P > Warding Goldwater’s personality—if
,b f Lv could understand on the same level as
Ss-I am dreaming. The one salvation
’ he the intuitive wisdom of our people as
joldwate P unately> it see ms that the pro-
;CrUtiny i noliticians surrounding him have
gotten him » just keep his mouth shut
,hile the, pub the strings. ^
Princeton, N.J.
I share your anxiety and dis .
otivation of your survey but I s rpng >
with your expectation that rt w HJ >P
rfeat Goldwater. On the contrary
ickfire and help achieve the °PP° S ‘^
Before I give my reasons t ^ Y p ® ycho _
ermit me to introduce mys • f or
nalyst and have practiced h?syc o ^ dme as
mny years. Also, 1 s P cn ^ ps ychoanaly-
n administrator and teache P involved
ic training school. In additio , imolica-
n projects with much broader socia
ions, such as teaching psychology
lawyers and other professionals. Throughout
my career—and much more so recently I have
been deeply concerned with man s violence. I
have studied, written about, and lectured on
man’s destructive potential.
What has all this got to do with FACT’S
questionnaire? First, 1 would like to say that
on the basis of my experience I believe that the
majority of the voting public does not know
about psychiatrists and will not be influenced
by what they have to say about Goldwater On
the contrary, the number of people who fear,
mistrust, and resent psychiatrists (eit er e-
cause of ignorance or unconscious resistance)
far exceeds those who heed them. Secon , you
are asking psychiatrists to make a Jia S"™ s
SSU "T “ r w“
mUeTontidence in a psychiatrist .ventured
a long-disrance dragn«rs , 0
psychiatrist mu nd and must have ac-
examme a patient fi Theilj and on i y
Sn 'could Im be'justified in making a diagnosis
or a prognosis of fumre be ^av.on ^ ^
1 fF^ud? 1 teaching was that psychoanaly-
stone of Freud^jj fof unders tanding and
therapy, never as . ™ „ so
do so is great, and because 4
used does not make it right. ...
Mr. Goldwater attracts a large number of
the kind of people who terrify me. I am equally,
if not more, frightened by the uninterested, the
unconcerned, and the cynical who refuse to see
the danger his candidacy presents. They remind
me painfully of the late ’2Os in Germany and
early ’30s in Vienna.
I shall do everything I can to help defeat
Mr. Goldwater, but I shall point to his ideas,
his statements, his political orientation, and his
associations, not to his psychology. There is
enough political evidence to defeat him with.
I would like to see your magazine present that
information, and not w r aste your energy and
facilities on an approach which is neither right
nor effective.
rw, r , Lawrence /. Friedman M D
Dean, Los A ngeles Institute of Psychoanalysis
___ Los Angeles
While I believe it unfair for me as a psv
chiatnst to make comments on a person’s sta
brill, based „„ public appearances only I lo
feel that the issue is so important th-it " °
reasonable doubt as to the candidate’s •, wy*
think Barry Goldwa.t is fi
President of the United States. 1 SCrve as
1 Name Withheld j, m, d
New York
garding Senator Barry Goldwater’s general
mental stability is an insult to me. An inquiry
of this type regarding any individual can only
be based on ignorance of the field of psychiatry.
No specialist could render such an opinion
about anyone without personal examination.
It is my recommendation that you submit
an immediate apology to me and to the other
specialists to whom you so rashly submitted
your inquiry.
Thomas W. Stach, M.D.
Assistant Psychiatrist,
Loyola University School of Medicine
Oak Brook, III .
Your inquiry for ,
re
Goldwater s speeches are waves of verbi¬
age which have no clear-cut meaning and which
resemble the written productions of schizo¬
phrenics.
His ways of handling anxiety (as at the
Republican National Convention) are to den)?
withdraw, and isolate himself, and symbolically
escape into the “wild blue yonder' (as in
i et P^ne) or to concentrate on more nebulous
m 11111 oications with the unknown ( v * a jM
rv _ _ -• *
ham radio).
[Name WithheMb^j^
think
. p V muiK oeiiaiui
Serve as President, how about L.B-
with hi $ lack of a clear line in
1Cles ’ embarrassing attempts to
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, and his total inability to express his
rVg coherently and logically at press
• evVi n -es? Some of his answers are not only
c ° nfC fbin a humiliation for our great country.
jective evaluation, he is making his precon¬
ceived ideas (his so-called “principles”), his
emotional needs and pet hatreds the basis for
1 *_ xl_* 1 * *^.11^1 — — o rs rr TVl rvi 1 fTp> VlA
Rita S. Glahn , M.D.
r tn ft psychiatrist , Springfield State Hospital
" Sykesville, Md .
CUlUliUlKU UCCUS anu pwi uiv
his thinking, talking, and acting. Though he
calls himself a “conservative,” he actually re-
n , i V _ * J-„1„ iU„ h.nntir. fVira rr^» nf tVlP rich 1
cans iiiniscii a tunati vuuvt’, j
fleets the ideals of the lunatic 1ringe of the right.
it- ox^onitv and hk political
. . . His motivations are vanity and his political
ambitions are not in keeping with the Ameiican
„..r. »-i r __ i_!_ „ -4-^rr,P>vi n Up ic
_____ ainuiliuiis cut, UUL Ill ivv^ii»5 *-
Goldwater’s view of life appears to be of life p ar from being a statesman, he is
i x- ...i+u infnniilp nvp.rcimnlitica- . . * _Uoc on “pocv”
(jOlUwat^i - * . VjC
—ressive, replete with infantile overs.mpl.fica-
/4.U^i \ «c arrnH OUVS f US V HlS
Em w «■ f? gu 2 !,i 1 ' 2
tlnns uau gujo ^ w ' ' ' , .
“L are anachronistic and dangerous. In this
Vl^ b ai . . _ 1 r-armnt he
VVtl)' Ui U1C. A cir Hum -
a dangerous political agitator who has an easy
and instantaneous solution for the most com-
... 1 1 /_ _ 4- -- +V»C»
^udear'age international problems cannot be
nuclear a e c, „ rtr ,f r ontatirm.
settled bya High Noon type of confrontation
ailu liiMaiuaii^uuo *—
plex and delicate problems (e.g., turn on the
water in Cuba; use small atomic bombs in Viet-
(1 DV a ‘"S' 1 ,w “" Jr ., .
I see Goldwater as a paranoid character
. ♦ - j A o 1 r'AnrlltlOHS
SCC vjui^ v1,ul ' vx ^
Who is able to function under normal conditions
Well Cl 111 ^ u
nam; solve the problem of the poor by telling
them they are stupid and lazy, etc., etc.). • •
_;j 4- f tA oil Hic^Q-
umn IS auic l u tuuvuvw --
but Who is susceptible to psychotic regression
BP'I^ to :x * 4-^,,o oc ollp.oed. that
ir” vere stress. If i. is true, as alleged «ha.
unaer scvci^ -- ' T , AA
he has had two nervous breakdowns, 1 shou
O _niAret tP^rfs,
consider that fact as confirming our worst fears
about him. We know that previous breaks j have read about Goldwater’s
.. a _ UllUei . Koon q aiVUlff.
aDOUl mill. HV 4.
usually predispose to further collapse unde
great stress. . t
I would consider Goldwater s elec
the Presidency a disaster.
1 consider Mr. Goldwater utterly unfit f
- . __ Ua 1C pmo-
1 consiuci mi. viviu.- - .
the highest office of this country. e 1S .
uiwy -— ^ y
His election as President would spell disas¬
ter for our country and quite possibly for the
rest of the world.
Henry A. Troy, M.D.
Oceanside , N.Y.
riuiu vvnui *- — ■ - . .
mother, she seems not to have been a § IV1 ^’
warm woman who would foster muM.1«s^
\Name Withheld], M.D.
Newark, N.J.
/arm woman wnu i \
a,her one who would (perhaps prematurely)
push a child to “be independent—be a man.
1
etc.
me nignesi unite ui ^ •
tionally unstable and mentally immature.
incompetent to see reality as it is anc UIW1 C
and unable to make an honest attemp
One could speculate further that Gold-
a riaid toilet-training period, ne
ZZ unalterably opposed to controls and
authority (except in his own hands, of course).
HisTme is “freedont'-bu, from wha,7 Un-
"siy i. appeam .0 be from his mother.
d ° m B*,';™ Col<iwa.e, is a sick n,a» «>» is W
be pitied and feared. ^ ,, ^
[Name Withh^h
a * t* rinse scrutiny fry
A public figure und t0 his
A public figure unu~ - dues t0 his
trained observers pr° vl t -ideyuate
trained observers pro\ ot adequate
personality, though these clues are not q
for purposes of treatment. un reflective
The simplistic and impulsn ,
qualities evident in Goldwater are aW
to a young child, a toddler. At t is a c e xer-
but concentrated focus of stretching
cising the early physical abilities-such as walk
ing, handling, banging, breaking, an exp
•are dominant. Also characteristic is a nega
tivistic individualism ("1 H do it mySELF. )
Failure to develop beyond this point may be
aggravated by a mother with penis-envy w o
provides a confusing sexual example while en¬
couraging grandiose protest behavioi.
Such persons are not capable of negotia¬
tions in situations which involve real power. For
this reason I do not believe Barry Goldwater is
fit to serve as ^resident of the United States.
[Name Withheld\, M.D.
Minneapolis
Barry Goldwater is psychologically unfit
* -1 » m 4 ^ _
to serve as President. My clinical impression of
him is that he is paranoid , with dominance of
subjective views over objective. This is an atti¬
tude desirable for an aggressive salesman.
^ 1 _ A § , .
DO v jiiiuii, * ■ *
Goldwater’s mass appeal is great because
* l» ... 1_* . • rr,, .
- —U[i t yvui n gi^ai uevause
he awakens the heroic in us. f his psychological
cnmnnnpnf hue Irmrr —_ 1 i_
component has long been covered by the dust
of civilian humdrum. After all, an entire genera¬
tion has been deprived of a major war.
[Name Withheld I M.D
Pontiac , Mich.
! think Barry Goldwater
honest, reliable, consistent, and
ture. . .
is intellectually
emotionally ma~
# ^^uuunany n
He recognizes and has the honesty
express the need to emancipate man ’- Y
to
r 1CCU LU emancipate man’s creativp
J “ ences ' He stand s clearly for Che promotion
of equal opportunitv re.. , 11011
Of equal opportunity regardless of color
creed bu, he does no, exploit or encou at
or
encourage per¬
sonal projection of “blame on others.
j-[is convictions, expressed and
strated, contrast with leaders who nourfcj^
hardy weed of dependency in order to at ' he
political position. 111
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Paul S. Jarreti a.
Assistant Professor of f>„. ■&.
Miami
I am struck by Goldwater’s inability
. h» v
ct 6<i
* fv is *
sl ibj 6C *
ne arti
.in fof
to
associate one thought with another. This i ndi
. * __ 1 - 1 *
l^ c
oil*
cates dominance of his thinking by his uncon
scious. He has the tendency to project his hostility
to the world around him, which he perceives as
hostile and threatening. His tendency to project
hostility is denied and rationalized as protection
of the American way of life. These mechanisms
—the tendency to deny, project, and rationalize
—are characteristic of individuals who are classi¬
fied as paranoid.
who con d '
he g ets ^
them- in
such p e °
[Name Withheld], M.D.
7 opeka , Kam.
1 t
As I see it, Goldwater tends to make dra- His stai
matic remarks, somewhat exaggerated for pur¬
poses of emphasis. Those who take the trouble
^ ^ mm * jrh Mi —
to study his further elaborations of his views
— _a JM. _ -a m J-m. -m A -m m, j.
order,
of delu
are finding that he is not foolish, impulsive, or
1*1 * T Y * 1
* J $
destructively aggressive. He is attempting to
* •* . . I . 4 .i
ge stive
that he
that h
revive interest in the conservative philosophy of
politics in the United States. I think it rather
would
— — —■ m « ■■ ■ .man- *■ — —^ ™ —
hasty, impulsive and dangerous to jump to the
1 * -4 * 4 4 * 4 4
fit to
conclusion that he is mentally ill. . . .
In measuring his state of mental health,
act ot
want
He is
one must be impressed by his successful business
career before politics, his successful functioning
■ ■ i i
He V
in ^ ongress, and his very successful campaign
j • — j *
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i
tic 1
- 7 T VI Jl u ViVWk/L/A. ^— r x v
to win the nomination of the Republican party
despite very heavy opposition from poweihil
1 iTi T" Mi ^ A 1 * m m ^ ^ r*
p.s.
* J T J v/jy vlJi iiv/ju f
interests. Admittedly, there have been some
outstanding tyrants in history who were simi
huly success!ul. However, Goldwater seems in
the
a p
terested in reducing the power of the Federal
Mr
government, not increasing it, so I have lit^ e
fe ar of his being another Hitler (I am nior e
the
r
concerned about the opposition in that resp^ ct )
oldwater does not have the fanatic qualify 0
thA In i/i P . _ . . i UO'
ul
; IUIW uucs not nave the tanauc 4 Wttl * v
hux Senator McCarthy who might have a
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a, w WiiM '!■
M ■ i jl I
:ends torn
aegerated for p
CQ 1
io take the ®
tions of H
ilisli, a
is attempt
ched having a recognizable psychiatric
0 ndition.
Finally, regarding his alleged “two nervous
akdownsthis term is a very loose one. A
erson would certainly have to know what kind
of nervous breakdowns Goldwater may have
had. It is well-known that President Lincoln
was subject to severe depressions which could
definitely have been considered pathological. I
have heard little talk about the qualifications of
Lincoln for the Presidency.
Richard R. Parlour, M.D.
Supervisor of Psychiatric Research
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Los A ngeles
Goldwater seems to identify with people
who condone violence and hatred. 1 suspect that
he gets vicarious satisfaction out of tolerating
them. This is the secret of his attractiveness to
such people.
David B. Barron, M.D.
Chicago
I believe Goldwater is grossly psychotic.
His statements reveal a serious thinking dis¬
order. ... He is grandiose, which is suggestive
of delusions of grandeur. He is suspicious, sug¬
gestive of paranoia, lie is impulsive, suggesting
that he has poor control over his feelings and
that he acts on angry impulses. This alone
would make him extremely psychologically un¬
fit to serve as President. A President must not
act on impulse! But in addition, he consciously
wants to destroy the world with atomic bombs.
He is a mass-murderer at heart and a suicide.
He is amoral and immoral. A dangeious luna
tic ^
Signed: A board-cen^PsychM
P.S. Any psychiatrist who does not agree v
the above is himself psychologically un it o
a psychiatrist.
1 believe it is a serious mistake to ocu ^ ,
Mr. Goldwater’s emotional stability or
thereof. Further, I believe that this a U ^!° , r
‘"two nervous breakdowns ’ represents a m
unfairness and bigotry which also °
present in the Republican campaign. a
already have attacked mental-health programs
as “Communist-inspired” and I suggest that the
pursuit of these "nervous breakdowns” is a simi¬
lar tactic.
Let us condemn, as I do, Mr. Goldwater
for appealing to everything that is base, primi¬
tive, and infantile in everyone and for exploiting
these feelings to political advantage.
Mr. Goldwater evokes and appeals to
blind hatred, envy, greed, omnipotence, and
omniscience. He and his followers seem to ex¬
pect the world to follow their dictates or he will
kill them all with the bomb. A very young child
who can't bend adults to his will also threatens
to kill them. A child believes in his omnipo¬
tence. He also believes he can restore his
thwarters to life. Mr. Goldwater and his fol¬
lowers should know better. Death is forever.
It is on the basis of their infantile, unrea¬
soning, and their unreasonable, political beliefs
that Mr. Goldwater and his mob should be con¬
demned and, I hope, overwhelmingly defeated
in the still free elections of 1964.
[Name Withheld \, M.D.
Pittsburgh
In my opinion Senator Goldwater is a
hinhly motivated, patriotic American. I feel that
actually he has shown remarkable restraint in
! c face of the many slanderous attacks upon
him I feel lha, he is a mature, emotionally
stable individual who is eminently qualified to
hold the office of President of the United States
and to lead in the fight against socialism and the
forces of the far left, which seem so strongly
entrenched in our present government.
John M. Murphy, M.D.
La Mesa, Calif.
The most essential requirement for a Presi¬
dent is the ability to make sound decisions-
A single wrong decision by him could plunge
the nation into war and destroy civilization.
There are several reasons to doubt Senator
Goldwater’s decision-making ability. Many of
his public statements reveal impulsheness. He
admittedly -shoots Iron, .he hip” frequently. He
has allegedly had two nervous breakdowns, but
the details of these episodes have been con-
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‘‘nervous
the publ' c - Th . C Jfl which u sU '
cealed f »® * nontechnical W sC hizo-
breakdown - a e pyc^’J --
ally means an s ive.
“ P^'LTviduals «*»
aB y mean ij.deprc-ssive. ,heir ,n-
ability .o «££ W- su
S isw-— s,KSS
*b e . ,*v.e»«;ia illnesses. • • American
is impaired in these UtoJ-J ^ the American
It is indeed unfortm mental iUne ss that
public understands so lit e for the na-
man could become a c ^ ^ bec om-
a man could become aja ^ bec om-
tion’s highest office withou
ing common knowledge.
^^w^rsonaliiy assessments
have been made on many people m 1
— have *e„ MM’ -
some nave uecn ^ -Umpnts
However, at best these contain arg
However, at ucai uivov - - . ;rilv ~
Of speculation and since they usually involve
people long dead they do not have the implica¬
tions inherent in a similar “study” of a living
person
# « * *
James A. Hamilton M-D-
S „„,»rd
tructive social program and no
for the needs of humanity, a ma n
mocked the ideals of his ancestors, a u
refusing to other minorities the same
civil rights for which his ancestors f ov
an d were exiled, a man who has for gott ^
his grandfather and brothers lived i n J S
couldn’t attend school, couldn’t social’^
pogromed and decimated because of the lr
a man so cowardly and so afraid and so
tionally disturbed that he has identified 2
his hereditary tormentors and strives to ^
one of them.
His allies and supporters, the Birchit
.— A /-»tVw=r lirnntiT*. rrimincile o*-,a ^
-- _ _ -“Ul.
KKK, and other lunatic criminals are the
;e s, the
sadistic individuals who tormented
—, g ■ t _ 1
sane
his ancestors. They exist in all nations
- * rv* _ a. nnrl mocVc tVlOr^ r\* A
and killed
different names and masks, then and now.
T * t
unfe
How can a man, a Jew, with such a alori-
. is and sacred tradition as the service of tu.
inanity through the centuries, embrace the cause
of evil? I will tell you how. His two “complete
nervous breakdowns” give us the answer. Such
4 * 4 •
Eugene G. Goforth, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry,
University of Washington
Seattle
structoe,
ci niuiA ^ - jl
morality and blood. He would be a calamity
to himself, his friends, his country and to hu-
Goldwater is a man of low character, a
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manity if he ever becomes President of the
U.S.A.
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What Psychiatrists Say about Goldwater:
..R n ls in mv opinion emotionally unstable, immature, volatile unpredictable, hostile,
and mentally unbalanced. He is totally unfit for public office and a menace to society.,,,"
personality with dominance of subjec-
tive views over objective . ■ ■ ■” ___ _
“His twoWous breakdowns’ absolutely disqualify him for office, for these have a
marked tendency to recur even after the lapse of decades. . . ■ _
“While I heartily believe that we
who has suffered two nervous
occupational therapy. _
should hire the handicapped, I hardly think that a man
breakdowns should be given the job of President as
it would appear that Barry had a stronger identification with his mother than with
his father. . .
mTtherne is ‘freedom’—but from what? Unconsciously, it seems to be from his
mother’s domination. . . .” _
“B G s proneness to aggressive behavior and destructiveness indicates an attempt to
prove his manliness. . . .”_ __
“The p7esidency^ should not^ be used as a platform for pro ving one’s manhood. . ■ ■”
“Inwardly he is a frightened person who set., 1 m as weak and threatened by strong
virile power around him—and his call for .... ssiveness and the need for individual
strength and prerogatives is an attempt to imself against and to deny his feel¬
ings of weakness and danger. . . .
“Since his nomination I find myself increasingly thinking of the early 1930s and the
rise of another intemperate, impulsive, counterfeit figure of a masculine man, namely,
Adolf Hitler. . . .”
“Unconsciously he seems to want to destroy himself. He has a good start, for he has
already destroyed the Republican party. . . .” ■
“He consciously wants to destroy the world with atomic bombs. He is a mass-murderer
at heart and a suicide. He is amoral and immoral. A dangerous lunatic!
“Goldwater is a man of low character, a coward, weak, insecure, confused, with no
constructive social program and no understanding for the needs of mankind. A man
who has mocked the ideals of his ancestors, a Jew who is refusing to other minorities
the same elementary civil rights for which his ancestors fought, died, or were exiled,
a man so cowardly that he has identified with his hereditary tormentors and strives
to become one of them. . . . He would be a calamity to himself, to his friends, and to
humanity if he ever becomes President of the U.S.A.”
“As a human being he is to be pitied. As President of the United States he would be
a disaster. . . .”
“AuH l >0 -j- (E=mc 2 ) , >- obliteration”
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